Dynamic Reliability Assessment for Multi-State Systems Utilizing System-Level Inspection Data

Traditional time-based reliability assessment methods evaluate the reliability of a multi-state system (MSS) from a population or a statistical perspective that the reliability of a system is computed purely based upon historical time-to-failure data collected from a large population of identical components or systems. These methods, however, fail to characterize the stochastic behaviors of a specific individual system. In this paper, by...