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Reliability analysis and condition-based maintenance of systems with dependent degrading components based on thermodynamic physics-of-failure

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In this paper, we present a new reliability model and a unique condition-based maintenance model for complex systems with dependent components subject to respective degradation processes, and the dependence among components is established through environmental factors. Common environmental factors, such as temperature, can create the dependence in failure times of different degrading components in a complex system. The system under study consists of one dominant/independent component and n statistically dependent components that are all subject to degradation. We consider two aspects that link the degradation processes and environmental factors: the degradation of dominant/independent component is not affected by the state of other components, but may influence environmental factors, such as temperature; and the n dependent components degrade over time and their degradation rates are impacted by the environmental factors. Based on the thermodynamic study of the relationship between degradation and environmental temperature, we develop a reliability model to mathematically account for the dependence in multiple components for such a system. Considering the unique dependent relationship among components, a novel condition-based maintenance model is developed to minimize the long run expected cost rate. A numerical example is studied to demonstrate our models, and sensitivity analysis is conducted to test the impact of parameters on the models.

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    Qianmei Feng & Lei Jiang

  2. Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA

    David W. Coit

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Feng, Q., Jiang, L. & Coit, D.W. Reliability analysis and condition-based maintenance of systems with dependent degrading components based on thermodynamic physics-of-failure. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 86, 913–923 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-015-8220-x

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