System reliability analysis considering fatal and non-fatal shocks in a fault tolerant system

• Published in: 2009 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium pp. 436 - 441
• Main Authors: Liudong Xing, Boddu, P., Yan Sun
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.01.2009
• Subjects: Binary decision diagram; Boolean functions; Data structures; Design optimization; Electric shock; Failure analysis; Fault tolerant systems; Independent component analysis; Poisson decomposition; Reliability; shock; Sun; System analysis and design

Systems designed with fault-tolerance techniques are typically subject to common-cause shocks. Failure to consider common-cause shocks in the system reliability analysis leads to optimistic results, which makes the reliability analysis less effective in the system design and turning activities. In t...