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Reliability analysis for the competing failure with probabilistic failure threshold value and its application to the k-out-of-n systems

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A method for reliability analysis of the competing failure with the probabilistic failure threshold value not the fixed threshold value is presented, which involves the random shocks and the degradation is independent and dependent respectively. Specifically, for the dependent condition, the effect due to the random shocks on the degradation is considered with a damage factor. In addition, the dependent competing failure model is applied to the reliability analysis of the k-out-of-n systems. Finally, two studied cases are presented to illustrate the proposed method, and the results show the proposed method is reasonable.

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Chengdu University, Chengdu, 610106, China

    Rong Yuan  (袁 容)

  2. School of Mechatronics Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu, 611731, China

    Rong Yuan  (袁 容), Hai-qing Li  (李海庆), Li-ping He  (何俐萍) & Hui-ying Gao  (高会英)

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Foundation item: the Special Research Fund for the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11272082), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. E022050205) and the Open Research Fund of Key Laboratory of Fluid and Power Machinery of Xihua University (No. szjj2013-03)

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Yuan, R., Li, Hq., He, Lp. et al. Reliability analysis for the competing failure with probabilistic failure threshold value and its application to the k-out-of-n systems. J. Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. (Sci.) 20, 500–507 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12204-015-1657-0

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