Reliability of multi-state systems considering failure propagating mechanisms

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Abstract

Failure propagation is one typical factor for common cause failure which reduces the reliability of a system Most existing works about fault propagation mechanism were studied for binary systems. In this paper, the reliable life of a multi-state system is studied considering the effect of selective failure propagation. Comparing with the existing works considering only the one-multiple pattern propagation, this paper presents three other propagation mechanisms: unidirectional multiple-one pattern. unidirectional conditional cascading pattern, bidirectional one-one pattern. Through analyzing these four propagation mechanisms, universal generating function based technique is proposed to model the system reliable life. A series-parallel multi-state system example is presented to illustrate the procedures.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 35th Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2016
EditorsJie Chen, Qianchuan Zhao, Jie Chen
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages9648-9653
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9789881563910
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 Aug 2016
Event35th Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2016 - Chengdu, China
Duration: 27 Jul 201629 Jul 2016

Publication series

NameChinese Control Conference, CCC
Volume2016-August
ISSN (Print)1934-1768
ISSN (Electronic)2161-2927

Conference

Conference35th Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChengdu
Period27/07/1629/07/16

Keywords

  • failure propagating mechanism
  • multi-state system
  • reliability
  • universal generating function

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