Research Article

System Reliability Assessment Based on Failure Propagation Processes

Table 5

The correlations of failure modes.

LevelDescriptionCorrelation

Extreme impactA fault of the component causes another node to fail to a great extent0.9
Strong impactA fault of the component causes another node to fail to an appreciable extent0.7
Moderate impactA fault of the component causes moderately another node to fail0.5
Small impactA fault of the component causes another node to fail to a certain extent0.3
Little impactA fault of the component causes occasionally another node to fail0.1