MAINTENANCE STRATEGY FOR SYSTEMS SUBJECTED TO DETERIORATION GOVERNED BY RANDOM SHOCKS Academic Article

abstract

• We examine the time-stationary availability of maintained systems that deteriorate according to a random-shock process. System failures are not self-announcing; bence, failures must be detected via inspection. Our approach considers randomly occurring shocks that cumulatively damage the system; shock magnitudes are taken as random. We develop an expression for computing system availability when inspections follow a renewal process. This expression leads to a proved proposition showing that, for any specified mean inspection rate, system availability is maximized by choosing deterministic inter-inspection times. 1994 IEEE

authors

• Wortman, Martin

published proceedings

• IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON RELIABILITY

author list (cited authors)

• WORTMAN, M. A., KLUTKE, G. A., & AYHAN, H.

citation count

• 56

complete list of authors

• WORTMAN, MA||KLUTKE, GA||AYHAN, H

publication date

• January 1994

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• n0018-9529ISSN  Journal

keywords

• Availability
• Deterioration
• Inspection
• Nonself-announcing Failure
• Random Shock
• Regenerative Process

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/24.326441

start page

• 439

end page

• 445

volume

• 43

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/24.326441