TITLE:
Four Common Properties of Repairable Systems Calculated with the Boltzmann-Like Entropy
AUTHORS:
Paolo Rocchi, Gurami Tsitsiashvili
KEYWORDS:
Repairable System; Boltzmann-Like Entropy
JOURNAL NAME:
Applied Mathematics,
Vol.3 No.12A,
December
31,
2012
ABSTRACT: Gnedenko, the father of the modern Reliability Theory, first
derived some fundamental properties of reliable systems following rigid
deductive logic. This paper shares the deductive method and infers four
principal properties of repairable/maintainable systems using the Boltzmann-like entropy.
In particular we calculate the reparability function and next discuss the
physical meanings of the formal results. Lastly we comment on the broad range
of applications and researches which can relate to this study.