RELIABILITY AND MTTF ANALYSIS OF A STANDBY REDUNDANT SYSTEM WITH COMMON CAUSE FAILURES

摘要

This paper studies the analysis of a two identical unit standby redundant system with two type of failures namely hardware and common-cause failure. Any unit may fail either partially or completely. The failure and repair follow exponential and general distributions respectively. Supplementary variable technique has been employed to obtain various probability states. The steady state behaviour, special cases and numerical examples have also been taken.