期刊名称：Journal of Reliability and Statistical Studies
印刷版ISSN：0974-8024
电子版ISSN：2229-5666
出版年度：2009
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：91-102
出版社：Ankur Printing Palace
摘要：This paper models a complex system to analyse its reliability characteristics. Thesystem has two possible modes-normal and failed with two types of repair facilities-major andminor. The s ystem can fail due to failure of any units which can fail in n-mutually exclusiveways or common cause failure. Each component of the system has a constant failure rate. Thesystem can be repaired with two different distributions viz. exponential and arbitrary. Byemploying supplementary variable technique and Gumbel- Hougaard family copula, Laplacetransformation of various transition state probabilities, availability and cost analysis (expectedprofit) along with steady-state behaviour of the s ystem and their plots have been obtained.Numerical examples with a way to highlight the important results have been appended at last
关键词：Common Cause Failure; Complex System; Reliability; Availability; Cost;Analysis; Supplementary Variable; Gumbel-Hougaard Family Copula
