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However, due to the complexity of the equipment operating environment and the uncertainty of the observed data, the existing belief rule base (BRB)-based assessment methods face the problems of exponential growth of the rule size (combinatorial rule explosion) and impaired model interpretability. To this end, this paper proposes an explainable BRB with interval structure (EBRB-I) method. The method improves belief rules by introducing interval structure and constructs a health status assessment model to alleviate the combinatorial rule explosion problem. Meanwhile, a data similarity-based interval division method is applied to optimize rule partitioning and improve model accuracy. In addition, interpretability constraints are added in the parameter optimization process to preserve the interpretability of the optimized model. In order to test the effectiveness of the model, experiments were carried out using the measured data of the EQ6BT diesel engine. 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