An exact and an approximate method for calculating the probability of occurrence of the output event from priority-AND (sequential) failure logic is given. The approximate method can be used during fault-tree analysis without modification to existing quantitative evaluation techniques. Assumptions made include s-independent, exponentially distributed, non-repairable basic events as input to the priority-AND failure logic.
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Fussell et al. (1976) studied this question.