USING MARKOV RELIABILITY MODELING FOR MULTIPLE REPAIRABLE SYSTEMS

The following situation is considered: a system consists of a large number of similar elements, which have identical failure rate functions. Failures of the elements are independent in a probabilistic sense. The elements can be recovered using different maintenance strategies. This paper proposes a general method for determining the; reliability of systems. By definition a multiple recovered system is a system in which multiple failed elements can be recovered at one time. The Kolmogorov equations with a large number of differential equations are transformed into integral-differential equations. General and particular solutions are given for some maintenance models. The application to a separator-steam generator is given.