On the modelling of imperfect repairs for a continuously monitored gamma wear process through age reduction.

• Autores: Sophie Mercier, I. T. Castro
• Localización: Journal of Applied Probability, ISSN-e 0021-9002, Vol. 50, Nº. 4, 2013, págs. 1057-1076
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A continuously monitored system is considered, which is subject to accumulating deterioration modelled as a gamma process. The system fails when its degradation level exceeds a limit threshold. At failure, a delayed replacement is performed. To shorten the down period, a condition-based maintenance strategy is applied, with imperfect repair. Mimicking virtual age models used for recurrent events, imperfect repair actions are assumed to lower the system degradation through a first-order arithmetic reduction of age model. Under these assumptions, Markov renewal equations are obtained for several reliability indicators. Numerical examples illustrate the behaviour of the system