Markov Chain Analysis of a Situation Where Cannibalization is the Only Repair Activity.
Expert InsightsPublished 1970
Considers a group of [S] identical aircraft, each of which is partitioned into [K] parts which fail exponentially. The only way in which a failed aircraft can be repaired is by cannibalizing its out-of-commission parts from other failed aircraft. The evolution of the number of good aircraft over time is governed by the transient behavior of an absorbing Markov chain. We can therefore study this behavior by matrix multiplication although the computational problem grows large when [K] is equal to or greater than 3. Some numerical results and some approximations are also provided. 18 pp. Ref.
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- Year: 1970
- Pages: 18
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/pubs
- Document Number: P-4326
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