This paper deals with the reliability and hybrid maintenance models for systems which are
subjected to competing and dependent failures due to degradation and external shocks …

Trigger effect indicates that some events occur because of the trigger of other events. This
kind of effect often appears in the operation of products and leads to failure. Due to the …

Servicing is applied periodically in practice with the aim of restoring the system state and
prolonging the lifetime. It is generally seen as an imperfect maintenance action which has a …

It is challenging and important to establish reliability model for mechanical systems with
multiple functional performances. This article develops a model of competing failure for …

The failure of many units or systems, such as components, parts, machines, can be
generally classified into two kinds of failure modes: one is catastrophic failure in which units …

Degradation modeling and remaining useful life (RUL) prediction for hard disk drives are
crucial for exploring the failure mechanism, evaluating the design reliability and improving …

For the purpose of assessing the accelerated degradation failure time distribution of product,
a kind of method to extend extremely small sample for large sample is put forward in this …

Many researchers have modeled systems under multiple dependent competing failure
processes (MDCFP) in recent years. Typically, those failure processes consist of …

Cumulative damage processes for discrete degrading systems caused by stochastic shocks
have received increasing attention. However, the degradation data is often subject to …

Owing to inadequate degradation data, the randomness and the fuzziness of degradation
processes, it is difficult to calculate the reliability of product. By investigating performance …