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 Title: Availability of a Repairable k-out-of-n: G System with Repair Times Arbitrarily Distributed Authors: Gherda, MebroukBoushaba, Mahmoud Keywords: Availabilitysystemk-out-of-nrepairable Issue Date: 2014 Publisher: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Citation: Serdica Mathematical Journal, Vol. 40, No 2, (2014), 161p-182p Abstract: An k-out-of-n: G system is a system that consists of n components and works if and only if k components among the n work simultaneously. The system and each of its components can be in only one of two states: working or failed. When a component fails it is put under repair and the other components stay in the “working” state with adjusted rates of failure. After repair, a component works as new and its actual lifetime is the same as initially. If the failed component is repaired before another component fails, the (n − 1) components recover their initial lifetime. The lifetime and time of repair are independent. In this paper, we propose a technique to calculate the mean time of repair, the probability of various states of the system and its availability by using the theory of distribution. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 90B25, 60K10. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10525/3458 ISSN: 1310-6600 Appears in Collections: Volume 40, Number 2

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