Study of two‐component system with failure interaction

Abstract

The literature on multicomponent systems, though extensive, has dealt mainly with formulations where the failure of a component has no effect or influence on the operation or failure of other components in the system. In many real-life multicomponent systems, the failure of a component has some effect on one or more of the remaining components. The paper considers a two-component system with a specific type failure interaction and obtains expressions for the expected cost of operating the system for both finite and infinite time.