Browsing by Author "Erkan, T. Erman"

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Coherent System With Standby Components
(Wiley, 2018) Eryilmaz, Serkan; Erkan, T. Erman
A coherent system that consists of n independent components and equipped with r cold standby components is considered. A generalized mixture representation for the survival function of such a system is obtained, and it is used to examine reliability properties of the system. In particular, the effect of adding r standby components to a given set of original components is measured by computing mean time to failure of the system. The limiting behavior of the failure rate of the system is also examined using the mixture representation. The results are illustrated for a bridge system. A case study that is concerned with an oil pipeline system is also presented.
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Citation - Scopus: 14
The Number of Failed Components in Series-Parallel System and Its Application To Optimal Design
(Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2020) Eryilmaz, Serkan; Ozkurt, Fatma Yerlikaya; Erkan, T. Erman
The number of components that are failed at the time of system failure is a useful quantity since it gives an idea of how many spares should be available to replace all failed components upon the system failure. In this paper, the number of failed components is considered at subsystem and system levels for the series-parallel system that consists of K subsystems. In particular, the joint behavior of the number of failed components in each subsystem is studied when each subsystem has identical components and different subsystems have different types of components. The results are then used to find the optimal number of components in each subsystem by minimizing an expected cost per unit of time upon the system failure.