Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis 
Volume 10 (1997), Issue 1, Pages 21-45
doi:10.1155/S1048953397000038

The failure rate in reliability: numerical treatment

Christiane Cocozza-Thivent1 and Vladimir Kalashnikov2

 1Université de Marne la Vallée, Equipe d' Analyse et de Mathématiques Appliquées, 2 rue de la Butte Verte, Noisy le Grand Cedex 93166, France
2Institute of Systems Analysis, 9, Prospect 60 let Oktyabrya, Moscow 117312, Russia
Received 1 April 1996; Revised 1 December 1996

Abstract

This paper contains approximations and bounds of failure rate functions of redundant systems. We illustrate properties of these bounds and their accuracy.