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In addition, the system fails under occurrences of M pairs of shocks with lags less than some \u03b4 (\u03b4-shocks) in any order. Thus, the system fails when one of the three named cumulative damages occurs first. Thus, it fails due to the competition of the three associated shock processes. We obtain a closed-form joint distribution of the time-to-failure, shock count upon failure, \u03b4-shock count, and cumulative damage to the system on failure, to name a few. In particular, the reliability function directly follows from the marginal distribution of the failure time. In a modified system, we restrict \u03b4-shocks to those with small lags between consecutive harmful shocks. We treat the system as a generalized random walk process and use an embellished variant of discrete operational calculus developed in our earlier work. We demonstrate analytical tractability of our formulas which are also validated, through Monte Carlo simulation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e26060444","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,27]],"date-time":"2024-05-27T09:33:31Z","timestamp":1716802411000},"page":"444","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Dependent Competing Failure Processes in Reliability Systems"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"26","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6718-1526","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jewgeni H.","family":"Dshalalow","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematical Science, College of Engineering and Science, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hend","family":"Aljahani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematical Science, College of Engineering and Science, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5524-629X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ryan T.","family":"White","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematical Science, College of Engineering and Science, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"168","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ress.2018.07.018","article-title":"Reliability modeling for dependent competing failure processes with mutually dependent degradation process and shock process","volume":"180","author":"Che","year":"2018","journal-title":"Reliab. 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