Stochastic Models in Reliability Engineering

5 Reliability Analysis of Demand-Based Warm Standby System with Multi-State Common Bus

Yi Ding , Heping Jia , and Rui Peng

DOI: 10.4324/9780429331527-5

CONTENTS

• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Model Description for a DBWSS with Multi-State Common Bus Performance Sharing
• 5.3 Time-Varying Reliability Evaluation Based on MDD
  • 5.3.1 The Construction of System MDD
  • 5.3.2 System Reliability Evaluation Based on MDD
• 5.4 Numerical Studies
  • 5.4.1 Illustrative Example
  • 5.4.2 System MDD for the Illustrative Example
  • 5.4.3 System Reliability Assessment for the Illustrative Example
• 5.5 Conclusions
• References

5.1 Introduction

Standby is an important redundancy technique for reliability enhancement, where hot standby, cold standby, and warm standby are three typical ...