Reliability modelling and assessment of a heterogeneously repaired system with partially relevant recurrence data

In this paper, statistical modelling of recurrent failures and reliability assessment of repairable systems are investigated. The study is aimed to fill a gap in classical failure data analysis, where the systems are heterogeneously repaired and the recurrent failures are caused by inherent characteristics, or unwanted factors, or both. A model is firstly introduced to model arrival times of failures by using general intensity function of a …