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Failures of a unit can be classified according to various criteria. One of the more frequently used criteria is the place of failure. With this classification, we need to identify the unit as a whole, its connections, various details regarding the connections, and various elements of the details. In what follows, we shall single out only two categories of objects: a system, which is a device containing several parts, and an element, which constitutes some part of a system.
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Gertsbakh, I.B., Kordonskiy, K.B. (1969). Classifications of Causes of Failures. In: Models of Failure. Ingenieurwissenschaftliche Bibliothek / Engineering Science Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87519-9_2
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