Dependent failure reliability assessment of electronic system

Abstract

Electronic systems are widely used in many engineer and civil fields, such as aviation, energy, communication, military and automatic etc. Usually the more the components that a system includes the poorer the system reliability is. But the failures of components are usually dependent. In this paper, a reliability model of dependent failure of electronic system is built and the influences of strength decentrality and load decentrality is discussed. The results of two examples prove the validity and superiority of the method in the application of the reliability modeling and assessment of system and the model that considered failure dependent is more reasonable than those conventional reliability models. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.