Availability analysis of a two dissimilar-unit deteriorating standby system with inspection
Abstract This paper investigates the stochastic behaviour of a two dissimilar — unit deteriorating standby system with inspection. The standby unit can fail when offline and its repair starts only after knowing about its failure from its time to time inspection. The inspection time, inter - inspection time, failure times of the units and repair times of the units are assumed to be different arbitrarily distributed. The mean time to first failure and expression for the steady state availability of the system are obtained. The results obtained by [3] are derived from the present results as special case. Computer programs, pertaining to the case when both inspection time, inter - inspection time, failure times and repair times distributions are exponential, are also given (in the Appendix).