Reliability of Series-Parallel Systems With Random Failure Propagation Time

• Published in: IEEE transactions on reliability Vol. 62; no. 3; pp. 637 - 647
• Main Authors: Levitin, Gregory, Liudong Xing, Ben-Haim, Hanoch, Yuanshun Dai
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.09.2013
• Subjects: Common cause failure; multi-state system; Performance evaluation; Polynomials; Probability density function; propagated failure; propagation time; Random variables; Reliability; reliability block diagram; selective effect; System performance; Throughput
• ISSN: 0018-9529; 1558-1721
• DOI: 10.1109/TR.2013.2270415

This paper presents an algorithm for evaluating the reliability and performance distribution of complex non-repairable series-parallel multi-state systems with common cause failures caused by propagation of failures in system elements. The failure propagation can have a selective effect, which means...