Optimal preventive replacement policy for homogeneous cold standby systems with reusable elements

G Levitin, M Finkelstein, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2020 - Elsevier
The paper considers homogeneous, cold standby systems performing missions of the fixed
duration when a failure of an operating element results in a mission failure. A system is …

Optimization of cyclic preventive replacement in homogeneous warm-standby system with reusable elements exposed to shocks

G Levitin, M Finkelstein, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
The paper considers homogeneous, 1-out-of-n warm-standby systems performing missions
of the fixed duration when a failure of an operating element results in a mission failure. A …

Optimizing availability of heterogeneous standby systems exposed to shocks

G Levitin, M Finkelstein, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2018 - Elsevier
The paper considers heterogeneous 1-out-of-N warm standby systems when all
components can experience internal failures whereas operating components are exposed to …

Heterogeneous standby systems with shocks-driven preventive replacements

G Levitin, M Finkelstein, Y Dai - European Journal of Operational Research, 2018 - Elsevier
The paper considers heterogeneous 1-out-of-N warm standby systems when all
components can experience internal failures and operating components are exposed to …

Optimal shock-driven switching strategies with elements reuse in heterogeneous warm-standby systems

G Levitin, M Finkelstein, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
The paper considers heterogeneous 1-out-of-n warm-standby systems performing missions
of a fixed duration when a failure of an operating element results in a mission failure. A …

Optimal preventive replacement for cold standby systems with elements exposed to shocks during operation and task transfers

G Levitin, M Finkelstein, Y Xiang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article considers heterogeneous, cold standby systems performing missions with the
fixed amount of work when a failure of an operating element results in a mission failure. A …

Optimal replacement and reactivation in warm standby systems performing random duration missions

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Xiang - Computers & industrial engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Reliability modeling and optimization of warm standby systems have attracted considerable
research attentions in the past decade due to their wide use in diverse critical applications …

Optimal mission duration for partially repairable systems operating in a random environment

M Finkelstein, G Levitin - Methodology and Computing in Applied …, 2018 - Springer
As a system failure during a mission can result in considerable penalties, at some instances
it is more cost-effective to terminate operation of a system than to attempt to complete its …

On preventive maintenance of systems with lifetimes dependent on a random shock process

JH Cha, M Finkelstein, G Levitin - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2017 - Elsevier
We consider preventive maintenance (age replacement) of items operating in a random
environment modeled by a Poisson process of shocks. An item is replaced either on failure …

Extended optimal preventive replacement policies with random working cycle

SH Sheu, TH Liu, ZG Zhang - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the preventive replacement policies for an operating system that
works for projects at random times. The system is subject to shocks which arrive according to …