Reliability Analysis on Competitive Failure Processes under Multiple Failure Modes

In this article, a new multiple competing failure models proposed, in which multiple degradation processes and random shocks are considered. The shocks have a significant impact on system reliability, and the system reliability under not considering the impact of shocks is much higher than the impact of shocks is considered. In addition, the influences of the correlation among different degradation processes are also considered in this article. We can find that the reliability with considering the dependent case is higher than the independent case reliability. Thus the dependence of the two degradation processes is non-negligible. A numerical example with reliability analysis and sensitivity analysis is discussed to illustrate the proposed the new model.