| Abstract: | This paper presents a reliability and availability analysis of k active, N warm standby units in the presence of chance with M multiple critical errors. The system is in a failed state when (N + 1) units have failed (active and/or warm standby units have failed) or one of the multiple critical errors has occurred. Failed units are not repaired but a failed system will be repaired with repair times arbitrarily distributed. The expressions for reliability, availability and steady-state availability are derived. |
