Journal
RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY
Volume 189, Issue -, Pages 11-20Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2019.04.010
Keywords
Mission abort; System survivability; Mission success probability; Virtual age process
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71631001]
- China Scholarship Council
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Safety critical systems such as aircrafts, submarines and space stations are required to perform various missions. To enhance the survivability of such systems, a mission can be aborted when a certain malfunction or incident condition is satisfied and a rescue procedure should be activated. This paper develops a novel mission abort policy for systems experiencing both internal failure and external shocks. Failure process of the system can be divided into two stages from new to the initialization of a defect, and from that to failure. Motivated by the virtual age concept, the impact of external shocks is characterized by random virtual age increment in the two stages. We consider a policy where a mission is aborted if the duration in defective state is larger than a given threshold. Under the stochastic failure model and mission abort policy, mission success probability and system survivability are evaluated and the optimal abort threshold balancing the tradeoff between the system survivability and the mission success probability is investigated. A numerical example on a cooling system in chemical reactors is given to illustrate the applicability of the abort policy.
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