Asymptotic Failure Rate Research Articles

Some general characteristics of two-state reliability models for maintained systems

Formulas for the asymptotic failure rate, long-term average availability, and the limiting distribution of the number of long ‘outages' are obtained for a general class of two-state reliability models for maintained systems. The results extend known formulas for alternating renewal processes to a wider class of point processes that includes sequences of dependent or non-identically distributed operating and repair times.