Review of recent advances in reliability of consecutive k-out-of-n and related systems

This paper presents an overview of the research performed on reliability studies of consecutive k-out-of-n and related systems during the last decade. In particular, methods for reliability evaluation, importance and optimal arrangements of components, lifetime distribution, and stochastic orderings of such systems are presented, also research results on related systems are summarized.

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