Efficient reliability computation of consecutive- k -out-of- n : F systems with shared components

Consecutive- k systems have been studied extensively in reliability engineering. Linear and circular consecutive- k-out-of- n: F systems with shared component(s) have been studied recently by Lin et al. and Yin and Cui . They considered two adjacent subsystems overlapping with one (multiple) shared component(s), respectively, and obtained system reliability formulas by summing the reliability values for all disjoint cases. As their method is …