Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2020, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (11): 2661-2668.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-506X.2020.11.31

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Reliability analysis and residual life estimation of bivariate dependent degradation system

Zhiyuan YANG1(), Jianmin ZHAO1(), Liying LI2(), Zhonghua CHENG1(), Chiming GUO1()   

  1. 1. Department of Management Engineering, Army Engineering University, Shijiazhuang 050003, China
    2. School of Information, Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang 050000, China
  • Received:2019-10-24 Online:2020-11-01 Published:2020-11-05

Abstract:

Degradation dependency and individual difference have a direct influence on the reliability of bivariate degradation system. To solve this problem, based on the degradation process model, the corresponding system reliability and residual life prediction models are developed. Firstly, considering the individual differences of the degradation process and dependency simultaneously, a bivariate dependent degradation model of the system is developed using the Gamma process and the Copula function with random parameters, and to improve the applicability of the model, the assumption of non-conjugate prior distribution is adopted for random parameters. On this basis, the influence of stochastic parameters on system reliability is analyzed, and a residual life prediction method based on the Bayesian theory is proposed. The unknown parameters of the model are estimated by Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method. The case analysis shows the necessity of considering individual differences in reliability estimation of such systems, and also verifies the accuracy of the residual life prediction method.

Key words: reliability, residual life, bivariate dependent degradation process, Bayesian theory, Copula function

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