Question

Consider a component that fails according to the Exponential distribution with rate 2. Failures can be of three severities 1, 2, and 3, and the failure of severity i occurs with probability Oli. The repair time for failure of severity i is exponentially distributed with rate ui. Failures of severity 1 are show stoppers, that is, the system fails completely when a failure of severity 1 occurs. On the other hand, failures of severities 2 and 3 do not completely knock out the system, and it continues to operate in a degraded mode.

a) Draw a state transition diagram that represents the failure and repair processes of the component.
b) Derive an expression for the system to be completely available.
c) Derive an expression for the system to be operating in a degraded mode.

Answer 1

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Explanation:

a) Diagram of state transition representing failure and repair process of component

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b) expression for the system to be completely available

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c) Expression for system to be operating in a degraded mode

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