TY - JOUR
A2 - Chiodo, Elio
AU - Maghsoodloo, Saeed
AU - Helvaci, Dilcu
PY - 2014
DA - 2014/03/19
TI - Renewal and Renewal-Intensity Functions with Minimal Repair
SP - 857437
VL - 2014
AB - The renewal and renewal-intensity functions with minimal repair are explored for the Normal, Gamma, Uniform, and Weibull underlying lifetime distributions. The Normal, Gamma, and Uniform renewal, and renewal-intensity functions are derived by the convolution method. Unlike these last three failure distributions, the Weibull except at shape β=1 does not have a closed-form function for the n-fold convolution. Since the Weibull is the most important failure distribution in reliability analyses, the approximate renewal and renewal-intensity functions of Weibull were obtained by the time-discretizing method using the Mean-Value Theorem for Integrals. A Matlab program outputs all reliability and renewal measures.
SN - 2314-8055
UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/857437
DO - 10.1155/2014/857437
JF - Journal of Quality and Reliability Engineering
PB - Hindawi Publishing Corporation
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