.../methodology/approach With the help of renewal theory and stochastic processes, a model has been designed to discuss the reliability and its characteristics. Findings The instantaneous and steady-state availability along with the maintenance model of the systems subject to generalized M...

...Afshin Yaghoubi; Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki; Hadi Rostamzadeh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to derive a closed-form expression for the steady-state availability of a cold standby repairable k-out-of-n system. This makes the availability calculation much easier and accurate...