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Reliability, Availability and Maintainability Analysis for Transportation Vehicles—A Case Study in APSRTC

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Performance of a system depends on the reliability of its subsystems if any, the maintenance efficiency, and the operating conditions. Failures are more frequent if the size and complexity of the systems increase and the effect of these failures on system performance is critical. Therefore, reliability and maintainability analysis is required to identify the bottlenecks in system for designed reliability and maintainability. In this paper, a methodology has been presented and is applied on road transportation vehicles in Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) as a case study. The best fit for time between failures (TBF) of subsystems is identified with Anderson–Darling (A–D) values and the respective parameters are calculated. Also, availabilities are estimated for all types of vehicles and bottlenecks are identified. This method will help to identify the optimal maintenance intervals for each subsystem as well as the system.

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  1. Vignan Foundation for Science, Technology and Research, Guntur, India

    E. Govindarajulu & S. Sai Rakesh

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  1. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Alberta, AB, Canada

    Leijun Li

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

    Dilip Kumar Pratihar

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

    Suman Chakrabarty

  4. School of Mechanical Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Purna Chandra Mishra

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Govindarajulu, E., Sai Rakesh, S. (2020). Reliability, Availability and Maintainability Analysis for Transportation Vehicles—A Case Study in APSRTC. In: Li, L., Pratihar, D., Chakrabarty, S., Mishra, P. (eds) Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1307-7_51

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