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Most systems experience both random shocks (hard failure) and performance degradation (soft failure) during service span, and the dependence of the two competing failure processes has become a key issue. In this study, a novel dependent competing failure processes (DCFPs) model with a varying degradation rate is proposed. The comprehensive impact of random shocks, especially the effect of cumulative...