Reliability and Sensitivity Analysis Method for a Multistate System with Common Cause Failure

Table 4

Comparison of reliability improvement after the CCF is removed from one single component.

θ	R(θ)	Improvement after specified component’s CCF is eliminated
		8	0.943819	0.42%	1.50%	0.33%	0.05%
9	0.856588	0.38%	10.14%	0.17%	0.28%
10	0.815374	0.40%	0.00%	0.17%	0.43%
11	0.815374	0.40%	0.00%	0.17%	0.43%
12	0.808013	0.70%	0.00%	0.30%	0.63%
13	0.740249	0.00%	0.00%	0.31%	0.54%
14	0.722797	0.00%	0.00%	0.27%	0.72%
15	0.722768	0.00%	0.00%	0.27%	0.72%