Coupled faults analysis and evaluation methods based on cellular automata

The reliability analysis of coupled faults may be difficult due to its properties of multiple and intermittent. The challenge is to find the rule and depict of the cross-linking relationship by mathematical model. The method in this study was developed around the Cellular Automata (CA) with a novel neighborhood definition and the structure of network model to build the failure cellular automata. And the simulation of the coupled faults influence combined with the importance evaluation method of network node to find the most critical faults which were beneficial to improve the design, without consuming massive computational overhead.