Accession Number:

AD0733217

Title:

Alternating Renewal Process with Exponentially Distributed Time to Failure. Bounds with Precision.

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis,

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CALIF

Personal Author(s):

• Nikolaisen,Tor Mikal

Report Date:

1971-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

37.0

Abstract:

The paper considers an alternating renewal process with time to failure being distributed exponential lambda, and with a general distribution for time to repair. Bounds and the precision of the bounds for the availability function were obtained. A computer program was written to solve for the availability function and some other quantities when the down distribution was a gamma alpha, beta, alpha integer. The availability function with down distribution being a mixture of gamma-functions is considered. Author

Descriptors:

• (*REPLACEMENT THEORY
• STATISTICAL PROCESSES)
• INTEGRAL TRANSFORMS
• EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS
• APPROXIMATION(MATHEMATICS)
• RELIABILITY
• STOCHASTIC PROCESSES
• COMPUTER PROGRAMS
• THESES

Subject Categories:

• Operations Research

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE