Reliability of consecutive- ( k , l ) -out-of- n : F systems with shared components under non-homogeneous Markov dependence

Multi-state system models are more practical and valuable when describing complex engineering structures than binary-state system models. Modelling of linear consecutive- ( k , l ) -out-of- n : F systems with shared components under non-homogeneous Markov dependence is discussed in this work. The proposed model is an extension of both “consecutive- k -out-of- n : F system” and “consecutive- k -out-of- n : F system with shared components between …