Modelling the reliability of a complex system under stress environment

Authors Cristina Zahalca, Mohamed Chardi

Publication date 24 January 2000

\(k\)-out-of-\(n\) system compound Poisson process measure the stress multivariate exponential distribution

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The authors consider \(n\) identical components with reliability (that is, cumulative hazard) functions of the form \(\alpha S(t)+B(t)\) where \(B\) is the reliability function of each component in an unstressed environment, \(\{S(t), t\geq 0\}\) is a compound Poisson process, and \(\alpha>0\) is a constant. In other words, the components lifetimes are assumed to be conditionally independent given \(\{S(t),t\geq 0\}\). First the authors compute the joint survival function of the component lifetimes and show that it is a symmetrical multivariate exponential distribution of \textit{A. W. Marshall} and \textit{I. Olkin} [J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 62, 30-44 (1967; Zbl 0147.38106)]. Next they obtain expressions for the reliability function of a complex system in an unstressed and in a stressed environment. Then they propose to measure the stress influence by \(I=1- \text{MTTF}_s/ \text{MTTF}_p\), where \(\text{MTTF}_p\) and \(\text{MTTF}_s\) denote the mean time to failure in an unstressed and in a stressed environment, respectively. Finally they explicitly compute the value of \(I\) for a \(k\)-out-of-\(n\) system, and they obtain some monotonicity results for \(I\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0912.00019].

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