On the Number of Component Failures in Systems Whose Component Lives are Exchangeable

DOI10.1287/MOOR.5.3.358zbMATH Open0442.90028OpenAlexW2013366697MaRDI QIDQ3885482FDOQ3885482

Authors: Sheldon M. Ross, Mehrdad Shahshahani, Gideon Weiss 

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Mathematics of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/moor.5.3.358

zbMATH Keywords

reliabilitycomplex systemsystem reliabilitymonotone systemsshock modelexchangeable componentscomponent failuresIFRA distributionsdistribution of number of component failures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research (90B25)

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• On unimodality of the lifetime distribution of coherent systems with failure-dependent component lifetimes
• Discussion of: ``An overview of some classical models and discussion of the signature-based models of preventive maintenance
• On the number of failed components in a coherent system consisting of multiple types of components
• The number of failed components in a coherent working system when the lifetimes are discretely distributed
• Reliability, signature, and relative quality functions of systems under time-homogeneous load-sharing models
• On the status of component failures in a working coherent system when the lifetimes are DNID random variables
• A study on the number of failed components in a failed coherent system consisting of different types of components
• Discrete hazard rate functions
• Load-sharing reliability models with different component sensitivities to other components' working states
• Conditions on unimodality and logconcavity for densities of coherent systems with an application to Bernstein operators
• The Kruskal-Katona theorem and a characterization of system signatures
• An alternative proof of the IFRA property of some shock models
• Some new results on stochastic comparisons of coherent systems using signatures
• Preservation of distributional properties of component lifetimes by system lifetimes
• Discrete time three-state \(k\)-out-of-\(n\) system's failure and numbers of components in each state
• Effective procedure of verifying stochastic ordering of system lifetimes

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