Reliability evaluation based on a dependent two-stage failure process with competing failures

This paper evaluates system reliability performance based on a dependent two-stage failure process with competing failures. The failure process of the system can be divided into two stages, i.e., the defect initialization stage, and the defect development stage. Dependence between these two stages is reflected in the fact that they share the same shock process modeled by a nonhomogeneous Poisson process. The impact of shock damage on system...