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This paper deals with system with $n$ identical elements and one repairing device. While one element working other ones stay in reserve. The distribution of element working and repairing times are supposed to be exponential. Here we obtain…
Stochastic comparisons of series and parallel systems are important in many areas of engineering, operations research and reliability analysis. These comparisons allow for the evaluation of the performance and reliability of systems under…
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In this paper, we investigate various stochastic orderings for series and parallel systems with independent and heterogeneous components having lifetimes following the proportional odds model. We also investigate comparisons between system…
Optimum lifetime of a series (resp. parallel) system with general standby component(s) always depends on allocation strategy of standby component(s) into the system. Here, we discuss three different models of one or more standby compo-…
In this paper we consider the system with $n$ identical elements and one repairing device. In each time moment only one element works while the rest elements stay in reserve. The distribution of element repairing period is exponential, the…
The second-largest order statistic is of special importance in reliability theory since it represents the time to failure of a $2$-out-of-$n$ system. Consider two $2$-out-of-$n$ systems with heterogeneous random lifetimes. The lifetimes are…
Mathematical formulation of fluent switching from "warm" to "hot" conditions of standby units is given using the well known Sedyakin's and accelerated failure time (AFT) models. Non-parametric estimators of cumulative distribution function…
In this paper, we study reliability properties of a k-out-of-n system with a single cold standby unit. We mainly focus on the case when the system operates in discrete time. In order to describe its aging behavior we consider three…
This paper compares two imperfect repair models for a degrading system, with deterioration level modeled by a non homogeneous gamma process. Both models consider instantaneous and periodic repairs. The first model assumes that a repair…
We consider an open problem of optimal operational sequence for the $1$-out-of-$n$ system with warm standby. Using the virtual age concept and the cumulative exposure model, we show that the components should be activated in accordance with…
This work considers stochastic comparisons of lifetimes of series and parallel systems with dependent and heterogeneous components having lifetimes following the proportional odds (PO) model. The joint distribution of component lifetimes is…
The coherent systems are basic concepts in reliability theory and survival analysis. They contain as particular cases the popular series, parallel and $k$-ou-of-$n$ systems (order statistics). Many results have been obtained for them by…
In this paper, we compare the lifetimes of two series and two parallel systems stochastically where the lifetime of each component follows location-scale (LS) family of distributions. The comparison is carried out under two scenarios: one,…
We study time continuous branching processes with exponentially distributed lifetimes, with two types of cells that proliferate according to binary fission. A range of possible system dynamics are considered, each of which is characterized…
The exponential upper bounds for the convergence rate of the distribution of restorable element with partially energized standby redundancy are founded, in the case when all working and repair times are bounded by exponential random…
A complex multi-state redundant system with preventive maintenance subject to multiple events is considered. The online unit can undergo several types of failures: internal and those provoked by external shocks. Multiple degradation levels…