M+1-OUT-OF-N:G SYSTEM WITH CORRELATED FAILURE AND SINGLE REPAIR FACILITY

Abstract

This paper deals with the M + I - out-of-N:G system with correlated failure and single repair facility, where correlated failure means that i (1 ≦ i ≦ N) operating units in the system are possible to, fail at the same time. We consider two repair policies, and under each repair policy Laplace transform of point-wise availability and reliability, meantime to the first system failure and stationary availability are derived. Finally some properties of stationary availability for each repair policy are given.