Some challenges and opportunities in reliability engineering

E Zio - IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Today's fast-pace evolving and digitalizing World is posing new challenges to reliability
engineering. On the other hand, the continuous advancement of technical knowledge and …

Dependent failure behavior modeling for risk and reliability: A systematic and critical literature review

Z Zeng, A Barros, D Coit - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a systematic and critical literature review on dependent failure behavior
modeling in risk and reliability. A literature search is conducted systematically based on pre …

Degradation modeling and remaining useful life prediction for dependent competing failure processes

T Yan, Y Lei, N Li, B Wang, W Wang - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2021 - Elsevier
Remaining useful life (RUL) prediction is critical for ensuring the safe and efficient operation
of machinery. Due to the existence of multiple influencing factors, the degradation of …

Reliability analysis for multi-component systems subject to multiple dependent competing failure processes

S Song, DW Coit, Q Feng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For complex multi-component systems with each component experiencing multiple failure
processes due to simultaneous exposure to degradation and shock loads, we developed a …

Modeling dependent competing failure processes with degradation-shock dependence

M Fan, Z Zeng, E Zio, R Kang - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, we develop a new reliability model for dependent competing failure processes
(DCFPs), which accounts for degradation-shock dependence. This is a type of dependence …

Reliability analysis for systems with self-healing mechanism in degradation-shock dependence processes with changing degradation rate

F Kang, L Cui, Z Ye, Y Zhou - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
We consider a system subject to two distinct failure modes, ie, a soft failure subject to
gradual degradation, and a hard failure caused by cumulative shocks, whichever comes …

Condition-based maintenance strategy for redundant systems with arbitrary structures using improved reinforcement learning

A Yang, Q Qiu, M Zhu, L Cui, W Chen, J Chen - Reliability Engineering & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The condition-based maintenance (CBM) decision-making for redundant systems has
attracted increasing attention. Most existing studies are dedicated to k-out-of-n redundant …

Reliability assessment of competing risks with generalized mixed shock models

K Rafiee, Q Feng, DW Coit - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper investigates reliability modeling for systems subject to dependent competing
risks considering the impact from a new generalized mixed shock model. Two dependent …

Reliability modeling for degradation-shock dependence systems with multiple species of shocks

H Gao, L Cui, Q Qiu - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2019 - Elsevier
In this research, reliability models are developed for systems or devices subject to
dependent competing soft and hard failure processes with degradation-shock dependences …

[HTML][HTML] Opportunistic maintenance for offshore wind farms with multiple-component age-based preventive dispatch

M Li, X Jiang, RR Negenborn - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Operation & maintenance (O&M) costs account for a large portion of total life cycle
cost for onshore wind energy, and the amount is estimated to be more for offshore wind …