Journal
RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY
Volume 80, Issue 3, Pages 293-298Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(03)00036-X
Keywords
GO methodology; repairable system; failure rate; Markov model
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The GO methodology is an effective method of system reliability analysis. It has been applied to non-repairable systems. This paper discusses the application of the GO method to a repairable system which is described by a Markov model and presents the quantification algorithm of the steady characteristics of the repairable system. The calculation formulas of the ordinary operators and the logical gates are derived and the steady reliability parameters of the system such as average operation probability and average failure frequency can be directly computed by the GO method. The result of an example shows that the algorithm is correct. The algorithm will be useful for the safety analysis of most engineering repairable systems. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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