Strict Consecutive-k-out-of-n:F Systems
Richard C. Bollinger · IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 1985
A method is given for calculating the failure probability function for consecutive-k-out-of-n:F systems which operate in such a way that isolated strings of failures of length less than k (which do not cause system failure) do not occur, or are immedately corrected; ie, when system failure occurs it is because all failures present are in strings of length at least k.