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Reliability engineering

failure of several redundant components from a single shared cause, which defeats redundancy and must be modelled separately in risk studies.

In reliability engineering, common cause failure refers to failure of several redundant components from a single shared cause, which defeats redundancy and must be modelled separately in risk studies. This meaning comes from Mosleh (1991) in Reliability Engineering & System Safety.[1]

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References

Mosleh, A. (1991). Common cause failures: An analysis methodology and examples. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 34(3), 249-292. https://doi.org/10.1016/0951-8320(91)90104-f

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