MEAN LIFE OF SERIES AND PARALLEL SYSTEMS,

Abstract

Some inequalities are obtained which yield bounds for the mean life of series and of parallel systems based on the type of component life distributions, such as (a) increasing (decreasing) failure rate; (b) increasing (decreasing) failure rate average; (c) decreasing density; (d) Weibull; (e) Gamma. Similar inequalities are obtained for the convolution of life distributions, helpful in the study of replacement policies. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0688106

Entities

People

  • Albert W. Marshall
  • Frank Proschan

Organizations

  • Boeing

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Convolution
  • Inequalities

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Statistical inference.