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

Yang, Lechang, Wang, Pidong, Wang, Qiang, Bi, Sifeng, Peng, Rui, Behrensdorf, Jasper and Beer, Michael ORCID: 0000-0002-0611-0345 (2021) Reliability analysis of a complex system with hybrid structures and multi-level dependent life metrics. RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY, 209. p. 107469.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2021.107469

Abstract

In practical engineering, the presence of dependent evidence is not rare due to various imperfections. Misuse of such information in reliability analysis will lead to conflicting or even erroneous results. In this paper, we propose a Bayesian reliability approach for complex systems with dependent life metrics. Notions such as explicit evidence and implicit evidence are established based on an identification of different roles of multiple dependent evidence in the likelihood construction. A likelihood decomposition method is developed to convert the overall likelihood into a product of Explicit Evidence-based Likelihood (EEL) function and Implicit Evidence-based Likelihood (IEL) function. An inferential diagram is developed to intuitively generate the required implicit evidence taking both outer-source information and the system configuration into consideration. An algorithm is then presented for implementation. The contribution of our work is a systematic investigation of the role of dependent evidence in system reliability evaluation and a full Bayesian approach that is applied to various system reliability models. Extensive numerical cases and a practical engineering case are demonstrated for validation and to illustrate the benefits of our approach.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Reliability analysis, Bayesian network, Dependent life metrics, Hybrid structure, Multi-source conflicting information, Likelihood function
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	17 Feb 2021 09:10
Last Modified:	18 Jan 2023 23:00
DOI:	10.1016/j.ress.2021.107469
Related URLs:	Author Publisher
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3115751