Availability of K-out-of-N:G Systems with Exponential Failures and General Repairs

Abstract For deriving the steady state probabilities and the availability of K-out-of-N:G systems with constant failure rate and general repairs an imbedded Markov chain at repair completion epochs is used. The special cases of constant repair time, Coxian-2 and Erlang-2 repair time distributions are provided for illustrating the results.