On the optimal allocation of two active redundancies in a two-component series system

✍ Scribed by José E. Valdés; Rómulo I. Zequeira

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 142 KB
• Volume: 34
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-6377
• DOI: 10.1016/j.orl.2004.12.004

✦ Synopsis

Components C 1 and C 2 form a series system. Suppose we can allocate the spare R 1 in parallel with C 1 and the spare R 2 in parallel with C 2 , or otherwise, allocate R 1 with C 2 and R 2 with C 1 . In this paper, we compare these two options using hazard rate ordering.