Confidence Intervals for System Reliability and Availability of Maintained Systems Using Monte Carlo Techniques

Abstract

This thesis presents the results of an extensive literature search for finding the confidence intervals for system reliability and availability of maintained systems using Monte Carlo techniques. The characteristics of system reliability and maintainability analysis are discussed. The basic Markovian failure and repair models are developed. A summary of the point estimates of availability, reliability of maintained systems, and the exact analytical methods are presented.. Finally, the Bootstrap (Double Monte Carlo technique) is used to obtain the confidence limits for the availability of the maintained systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA115573

Entities

People

  • Mohamed S. Hasaballa

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Electronic Warfare
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Computational Science
  • Confidence Limits
  • Differential Equations
  • Downtime
  • Information Science
  • Markov Chains
  • Markov Processes
  • Operations Research
  • Probabilistic Models
  • Probability
  • Radar
  • Random Variables
  • Reliability
  • Statistics
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Test Equipment

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Statistical inference.
  • Systems Analysis and Design