Protection Mechanism in Reliability Evaluation Approach to Multistate System with Common Cause Failure

Table 3

Parameters of all the components in the numerical example.

Component	Working state				Local failure	Failure to cause CCF	Failure of protection
	Prob.	Tons/h	Prob.	Tons/h	Prob.	Prob.	Prob.
C11	0.62	4	0.25	5	0.07	0.06	—
C12	0.64	5	0.25	9	0.06	0.05	—
C21	0.71	5	0.14	7	0.15	—	0.2
C22	0.6	7	0.2	10	0.2	—	—
C23	0.63	4	0.22	6	0.15	—	0.3
C31	0.65	4	0.14	7	0.15	0.06	—
C32	0.7	7	0.2	10	0.1	—	—
C33	0.55	3	0.3	6	0.15	—	—