Abstract:The reliability assessment of a large-scale system that considers its units' degradation is challenging due to the resulting dimensionality problem. We propose a new methodology that allows us to overcome difficulties in analyzing large-scale system dynamics, and devise analytical methods for finding the multivariate distribution of the dynamically changing system condition. When each unit's degradation condition can be classified into a finite number of states, and the transition distribution from one state t… Show more
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