Reliability and maintenance modeling of multi-state degraded systems

Inthispaper,wedevelopageneralizedmulti-statedegradedsystemreliabilitymodelsubjecttomultiplecompetingfailureprocesses,includingtwodegradationprocesses,andrandomshocks.Theoperatingconditionofthemulti-statesystemsischaracterizedbyafinitenumberofstates.Wealsopresentamethodologytogeneratethe