Reliability and mean residual life functions of coherent systems in an active redundancy
研究了在组件级和系统级主动冗余下，相干系统的可靠性和平均剩余寿命函数，假设原组件与备件寿命相关，结果对可靠性工程师评估冗余策略有用。
Abstract In this article, the reliability and the mean residual life (MRL) functions of a system with active redundancies at the component and system levels are investigated. In active redundancy at the component level, the original and redundant components are working together and lifetime of the system is determined by the maximum of lifetime of the original components and their spares. In the active redundancy at the system level, the system has a spare, and the original and redundant systems work together. The lifetime of such a system is then the maximum of lifetimes of the system and its spare. The lifetimes of the original component and the spare are assumed to be dependent random variables. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 64: 19–28, 2017