On the failure rate

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Authors Gheorghe Oprişan

Publication date 13 September 2000

zbMATH Keywords

failure ratereliabilitysemi-Markov processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of renewal theory (reliability, demand theory, etc.) (60K10) Applications of Markov renewal processes (reliability, queueing networks, etc.) (60K20) Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research (90B25)

Review text

The subject of the paper is the failure rate of a system. A semi-Markov process of a system is considered and renewal equations are given by using the transition rates. Finally the existence and uniqueness of the solution is discussed. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0912.00019].

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