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System Reliability Analysis in the Presence of Dependent Component Failures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Jane N. Hagstrom  and
King-Tim Mak
Jane N. Hagstrom
Affiliation:
College of Business Administration University of lllinois at Chicago Chicago, lllinois 60680
King-Tim Mak
Affiliation:
College of Business Administration University of lllinois at Chicago Chicago, lllinois 60680
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Abstract

We consider the impact that the introduction of dependent component failures has on the computational difficulty of system reliability analysis. We develop general strategies for computing system reliability when components are subject to dependent failures. In the process, we identify a significant number of cases where computing the system reliability in the presence of dependent failures is not significantly harder than writing down the joint probability distribution and computing the system reliability when the components fail independently.

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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , October 1987 , pp. 425 - 440
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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