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    Citation - WoS: 12
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    Dynamic Reliability Evaluation of Consecutive-K System
    (Taylor & Francis inc, 2011) Eryilmaz, Serkan; Kan, Cihangir
    A consecutive k-within-m-out-of-n:F system consists of n linearly ordered components and fails if and only if there are m consecutive components which include among them at least k failed components. This system model generalizes both consecutive k-out-of-n:F and k-out-of-n:F systems. In this article, we study the dynamic reliability properties of consecutive k-within-m-out-of-n:F system consisting of exchangeable dependent components. We also obtain some stochastic ordering results and use them to get simple approximation formulae for the survival function and mean time to failure of this system.
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    Citation - WoS: 17
    Citation - Scopus: 16
    A Study on Reliability of Coherent Systems Equipped With a Cold Standby Component
    (Springer Heidelberg, 2014) Eryilmaz, Serkan
    In this paper, we investigate the effect of a single cold standby component on the performance of a coherent system. In particular, we focus on coherent systems which may fail at the time of the first component failure in the system. We obtain signature based expressions for the survival function and mean time to failure of the coherent systems satisfying the abovementioned property.
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    Citation - WoS: 12
    Citation - Scopus: 14
    On Signatures of Series and Parallel Systems Consisting of Modules With Arbitrary Structures
    (Taylor & Francis inc, 2014) Eryilmaz, Serkan
    The signature of a system is a useful concept not only in the analysis of binary coherent systems but also in network reliability. Computation of system signature is a well-defined combinatorial problem. This article is concerned with the computation of signature vectors of series and parallel systems consisting of modules. We derive simple formulas for the signature and minimal signature of series and parallel systems based on signatures and minimal signatures of modules with given structures. We present computational results to illustrate the findings.
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    Citation - WoS: 18
    Citation - Scopus: 21
    Failure Rates of Consecutive k-out-of-n< Systems
    (Springer Heidelberg, 2012) Eryilmaz, Serkan; Navarro, Jorge
    Linear and circular consecutive k-out-of-n systems are very popular models in reliability theory, survival analysis, and biological disciplines and other related lifetime sciences. In these theories, the failure rate function is a key notion for measuring the ageing process. In this paper we obtain some mixture representations for consecutive systems and we apply a mixture-based failure rate analysis for both linear and circular consecutive systems. In particular, we analyze the limiting behavior of the system failure rate when the time increases and we obtain some ordering properties. We first consider the popular case of systems with components having independent and identically distributed lifetimes. In practice, these assumptions may fail. So we also study the case of independent non-identically distributed component lifetimes. This case has special interest when a cold-standby redundancy is used for some components. In this sense, we analyze where to place the best components in the systems. Even more, we also study systems with dependent components by assuming that their lifetimes are exchangeable. (C) 2011 The Korean Statistical Society. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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    Citation - WoS: 8
    Citation - Scopus: 12
    On the Mean Residual Lifetime of Consecutive K-Out Systems
    (Springer, 2012) Salehi, E. T.; Asadi, M.; Eryilmaz, S.
    In recent years, consecutive systems were shown to have many applications in various branches of science such as engineering. This paper is a study on the stochastic and aging properties of residual lifetime of consecutive k-out-of-n systems under the condition that n-r+1, ra parts per thousand currency signn, components of the system are working at time t. We consider the linear and circular consecutive k-out-of-n systems and propose a mean residual lifetime (MRL) for such systems. Several properties of the proposed MRL is investigated. The mixture representation of the MRL of the systems with respect to the vector of signatures of the system is also studied.