System Reliability Analysis in the Presence of Dependent Component Failures
Jane Nichols Hagstrom, King-Tim Mak · Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences · 1987
We consider the impact that the introduction of dependent component failures has on the computational difficulty of system reliability analysis. We develop general strategies for computing system reliability when components are subject to dependent failures. In the process, we identify a significant number of cases where computing the system reliability in the presence of dependent failures is not significantly harder than writing down the joint probability distribution and computing the system reliability when the components fail independently.