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This paper identifies and addresses an issue of competing propagated failures and failure isolation effect caused by functional dependence for Multi-State Systems (MSS). An analytical combinatorial method is proposed for incorporating the competing failure processes in the reliability analysis of MSS. The proposed method can evaluate the reliability of MSS with arbitrary distributions of the system...
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