Reliability analysis of multi-trigger binary systems subject to competing failures

• Published in: Reliability engineering & system safety Vol. 111; pp. 9 - 17
• Main Authors: Wang, Chaonan, Xing, Liudong, Levitin, Gregory
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.03.2013; Elsevier
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Combinatorial method; Competing failures; Computer science; control theory; systems; Exact sciences and technology; Flows in networks. Combinatorial problems; Functional dependence; Information retrieval. Graph; Operational research and scientific management; Operational research. Management science; Propagated failure; Reliability; Reliability theory. Replacement problems; Theoretical computing; Competing failures; Combinatorial method; Propagated failure; Reliability; Functional dependence; Markov process; Outage; Dependability; Binary system; Combinatorial optimization; Failures; Time domain method; Break up time; System analysis

This paper suggests two combinatorial algorithms for the reliability analysis of multi-trigger binary systems subject to competing failure propagation and failure isolation effects. Propagated failure with global effect (PFGE) is referred to as a failure that not only causes outage to the component...