Mean residual life of coherent systems consisting of multiple types of dependent components

Eryilmaz, S.; Coolen, F.P.A.; Coolen-Maturi, T.

doi:10.1002/nav.21782

Mean residual life of coherent systems consisting of multiple types of dependent components

Eryilmaz, S.; Coolen, F.P.A.; Coolen-Maturi, T.

Authors

S. Eryilmaz

Professor Frank Coolen frank.coolen@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Dr Tahani Coolen-Maturi tahani.maturi@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

Abstract

Mean residual life is a useful dynamic characteristic to study reliability of a system. It has been widely considered in the literature not only for single unit systems but also for coherent systems. This article is concerned with the study of mean residual life for a coherent system that consists of multiple types of dependent components. In particular, the survival signature based generalized mixture representation is obtained for the survival function of a coherent system and it is used to evaluate the mean residual life function. Furthermore, two mean residual life functions under different conditional events on components’ lifetimes are also defined and studied.

Citation

Eryilmaz, S., Coolen, F., & Coolen-Maturi, T. (2018). Mean residual life of coherent systems consisting of multiple types of dependent components. Naval Research Logistics, 65(1), 86-97. https://doi.org/10.1002/nav.21782

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Feb 20, 2018
Online Publication Date	Mar 7, 2018
Publication Date	Feb 1, 2018
Deposit Date	Feb 21, 2018
Publicly Available Date	Mar 7, 2019
Journal	Naval Research Logistics
Publisher	Wiley
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	65
Issue	1
Pages	86-97
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1002/nav.21782

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This is the accepted version of the following article: Eryilmaz, S., Coolen, F.P.A. & Coolen-Maturi, T. (2018). Mean residual life of coherent systems consisting of multiple types of dependent components. Naval Research Logistics 65(1): 86-97, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/nav.21782. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.