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    The Number of Failed Components in a Coherent System With Exchangeable Components
    (Ieee-inst Electrical Electronics Engineers inc, 2012) Eryilmaz, Serkan
    This paper is concerned with the number of components that are failed at the time of system failure. We study the corresponding quantity for a coherent structure via the system signature. Furthermore, we study the distribution of the number of failures after a specified time until the system failure. We illustrate the results for well-known general classes of coherent systems such as linear consecutive k-within-m-out-of- n:F, and m-consecutive-k-out-of-: n:F.
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    Citation - WoS: 9
    Citation - Scopus: 12
    The Behavior of Warm Standby Components With Respect To a Coherent System
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2011) Eryilmaz, Serkan
    This paper is concerned with a coherent system consisting of active components and equipped with warm standby components. In particular, we study the random quantity which denotes the number of surviving warm standby components at the time of system failure. We represent the distribution of the corresponding random variable in terms of system signature and discuss its potential utilization with a certain optimization problem. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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    Citation - WoS: 7
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    A new look at dynamic behavior of binary coherent system from a state-level perspective
    (Springer, 2014) Eryilmaz, Serkan
    In this paper we study lifetime properties of binary coherent systems from a state-level perspective. We define and study a system whose performance levels are determined by its total number of working components and structure. That is, the more working components the better performance level for the system. This enables us to make a more detailed analysis of a binary system. We obtain the distributions of the time that is spent by the system in a specific state subset and a specific state. Our analysis is based on the use of system signature. We also define an optimization problem concerned with the determination of the number of warm standby components.
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    Citation - WoS: 32
    Citation - Scopus: 44
    The Number of Failed Components in a k-out-of-n< System Consisting of Multiple Types of Components
    (Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2018) Eryilmaz, Serkan
    The number of failed components in a failed or operating system is a very useful quantity in terms of replacement and maintenance strategies. These quantities have been studied in several papers for a system consisting of identical components. In this paper, the number of failed components at the time when the system fails and the number of failed components when the system is working are considered for a well-known and widely applicable k-out-of-n structure. The system is assumed to have multiple types of components. That is, the system consists of components having nonidentical failure time distributions. Optimization problems are also formulated to find optimal values of the number of components of each type, and the optimal replacement time.
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    Citation - WoS: 13
    Citation - Scopus: 19
    Phase Type Stress-Strength Models With Reliability Applications
    (Taylor & Francis inc, 2018) Eryilmaz, Serkan
    The stress-strength model has attracted a great deal of attention in reliability analysis, and it has been studied under various modeling assumptions. In this article, the stress-strength reliability is studied for both single unit and multicomponent systems when stress and strength distributions are of phase type. Phase-type distributions, besides their analytical tractability, are a versatile tool for modeling a wide range of real life systems/processes. In particular, matrix-based expressions are obtained for the stress-strength reliability, and mean residual strength for an operating system. The results are illustrated for Erlang-type stress-strength distributions for a single unit system and a system having a general coherent structure. An example on the comparison of two multi-state units in stress-strength ordering is also presented.
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    Citation - WoS: 45
    Citation - Scopus: 48
    Age-Based Preventive Maintenance for Coherent Systems With Applications To Consecutive-k-out-of-n< and Related Systems
    (Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2020) Eryilmaz, Serkan
    This article presents a signature-based representation for the expected cost rate of age-based preventive maintenance policy for a binary coherent system consisting of independent exponential components, and then specializes the method to consecutive k-out-of-n system and its generalizations. According to the age-based preventive maintenance policy, the system is replaced at failure or before failure. For an arbitrary coherent system, the number of failed components at replacement time is a random variable. Thus, the expected cost per unit of time involves the mean number of failed components at replacement time. This mean is represented in terms of signature. Extensive numerical and graphical examples are presented for m-consecutive k-out-of-n:F and consecuthre-k-within-m-out-of-n:F systems.
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    Citation - WoS: 15
    Citation - Scopus: 16
    Age Based Preventive Replacement Policy for Discrete Time Coherent Systems With Independent and Identical Components
    (Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2023) Eryilmaz, Serkan
    The paper is concerned with an age based preventive replacement policy for an arbitrary coherent system that consists of components that are independent and have common discrete lifetime distribution. The system having an arbitrary structure is replaced preventively after a specific number of cycles or correctively at its failure time. The necessary conditions for the unique and finite replacement cycle that minimize the expected cost per unit of time are obtained. The policy is studied for some particular system models including the well-known k-out-of -n structure. The findings of the paper extend the results in the literature from single unit and parallel systems to an arbitrary coherent system. Numerical results are presented for particular discrete component lifetime distributions.
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    Citation - WoS: 32
    Citation - Scopus: 38
    The Effectiveness of Adding Cold Standby Redundancy To a Coherent System at System and Component Levels
    (Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2017) Eryilmaz, Serkan
    The effect of adding cold standby redundancy to a system at system and component levels provides a useful information in reliability design. For a series (parallel) system adding cold standby redundancy at the component (system) level yields longer system lifetime. In this paper, the effect of adding cold standby redundancy to a general coherent structure at system and component levels is studied. In particular, signature based expressions for the survival function of the system after standby redundancy at system and component levels are obtained. Thus for a given coherent structure with known signature, the survival functions and mean time to failure of new systems can be easily calculated and comparisons can be done in terms of stochastic ordering, and mean time to failure ordering. As a case study, circular consecutive-k-out-of-n:G system which can be used to analyze activities in a nuclear accelerator is considered.