COMPUTATION OF FAILURE/REPAIR FREQUENCY OF MULTI-STATE MONOTONE SYSTEMS
Edward Korczak · Reliability: Theory & Applications · 2008
The paper deals with calculation methods for failure and repair frequencies of multi-state monotone systems, both for the instantaneous and steady state cases. Being based on the binary representation of multi-state structure, new general formula for the failure/repair frequency is derived. This formula is used to obtain simple rules for the calculation of failure/repair frequency. In particular, the use of the algebra of dual numbers is presented.