In this paper we study reliability properties of coherent systems consisting of n exchangeable components. We focus on the aging behavior of a reliability structure and several results are reached clarifying whether a system displays the IFR/DFR property or not. More specifically, a necessary and sufficient condition is deduced for a system’s lifetime to be IFR, while additional signature-based conditions aiming at the same direction are also delivered. For illustration purposes, special cases of well-known reliability systems and specific lifetimes’ distributions are considered and studied in detail.
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Koutras, M. V., & Triantafyllou, I. S. (2014). Reliability analysis of coherent systems with exchangeable components. In Springer Optimization and Its Applications (Vol. 91, pp. 321–332). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04720-1_20
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