Analysis of a Stochastic Model to Determine Failure Rates for Communication-Electronic Systems.
Abstract
Work accomplished by headquarters Air Force Logistics Command (AFLC) demonstrates a need to consider both on-time and off-time failures when computing communication-electronic spares requirements. However, AFLC has been unable to verify and validate a method that would integrate both failure types into a single requirements algorithm. This thesis attempts to verify and validate a method which integrates the two distributions. On-time failures are derived through a stochastic growth process, where expected on-failures are divided by expected off-failures, then multiplied by both an initial off-failure rate and power-ups. The initial off-failure rate equals expected off-failures divided by average power-ups attempted. Off-failures occur through unsuccessful attempts to power-up a system.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1986
- Accession Number
- ADA174394
Entities
People
- Thomas M. Skowronek
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology