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CPU and Fire Hydrant Reliability Analysis

i) The document presents two tutorial questions about reliability analysis. Question 1 deals with a CPU with a constant failure rate and asks about its reliability functions and metrics like MTTF and mean residual life. Question 2 considers a fire hydrant with a uniform failure distribution and asks similar questions about its reliability functions, MTTF, and mean residual life. ii) Both questions ask students to calculate reliability metrics like MTTF and mean residual life based on the failure distributions and preventive maintenance schedules provided, and assess how maintenance affects reliability.

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CPU and Fire Hydrant Reliability Analysis

i) The document presents two tutorial questions about reliability analysis. Question 1 deals with a CPU with a constant failure rate and asks about its reliability functions and metrics like MTTF and mean residual life. Question 2 considers a fire hydrant with a uniform failure distribution and asks similar questions about its reliability functions, MTTF, and mean residual life. ii) Both questions ask students to calculate reliability metrics like MTTF and mean residual life based on the failure distributions and preventive maintenance schedules provided, and assess how maintenance affects reliability.

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Tutorial Questions

Question 1. Suppose that your CPU has a constant failure rate, = 0.0005.
i)

State the hazard rate function, reliability function, failure function and failure
density function.

ii)

The MTTF is defined as = 0 (). Work out the MTTF of your CPU. (You

may use any calculator to evaluate the integral)


iii)

Suppose your CPU is subject to regular preventive maintenance every 100 hours.
Compute the MTTFm. Does the maintenance improve the reliability?

iv)

Your CPU has been operating in the last 1000 hours. What is the mean residual
life of your CPU? (Mean residual life: () =

()

of your answer?

()

) What is the implication

Question 2. Suppose the useful life of a type of fire hydrants follows a uniform distribution,
with failure density function f(t) = 0.05 for 0 t 20 (years).
i)

Derive the failure function, reliability function and hazard rate function. Is the
hazard increasing or decreasing over time?

ii)

Compute the MTTF.

iii)

What is the probability that one of such fire hydrants will fail after 10 years but
before 15 years?

iv)

If such fire hydrants are subject to preventive maintenance every 5 years, what is
the MTTFm? Is maintenance improving the reliability?

v)

If one of such fire hydrants has been used for 15 years, what is its mean residual
life?

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