Reliability Assessment of a Complex System with Unspecified Structure and Overlapping Test Data

Reliability analysis of a complex system with hybrid structures and multi-level dependent life metrics

“…Example 5 Fig. 14 shows the system configuration of a Harmonic Gear Drive (HGD) device, which is widely used in various engineering fields [54], [55]. The HGD comprises two main parts i.e.…”

“…For mathematical convenience, we use the BN shown in Fig. 15 to model the HGD device (more details regarding the HGD device refer [54], [55]). Note that this BN contains a hybrid structure as an intra-level connection (from S 1 → S 2 ), which means that most existing methods cannot be applied.…”