A new method to evaluate mean life of power system equipment (original) (raw)

2009, IET Conference Publications

Traditional statistical reliability analysis relies on failure data for a population of devices. If a complete data set is available (i.e., failure ages are known for each device within the population), statistical reliability analysis can provide predictions, such as mean-time-to-failure for a particular device, percentages of devices that will fail at a particular time or before a particular age, a statistical distribution of failure ages, and other statistical measures of device failures. However, a typical population includes devices that have not yet failed, termed "suspensions". In reliability analysis, such populations are often denoted as "right censored populations". In this paper, we propose a new method to evaluate mean life of power system equipment with limited end-of-life failure data. The method is based on the generalized exponential distribution. This method can be used as an alternative to methods based on normal and Weibull distribution models.

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