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Availability measures for a two-state system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Laurence A. Baxter
Laurence A. Baxter*
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University College London
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Abstract

The use of alternating renewal processes to model the behaviour of a repairable system is discussed, and properties of two measures of availability are reviewed. It is shown how the introduction of forward recurrence times to failure enables these measures to be generalised.

Keywords

TWO-STATE SYSTEMALTERNATING RENEWAL PROCESSAVAILABILITYRECURRENCE TIMES

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Research Papers
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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , March 1981, pp. 227 - 235
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 

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