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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2012, Article ID 106359, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/106359 Research Article Consecutive k-within-m-out-of-n:F System with Nonidentical Components Serkan Eryilmaz Department of Industrial Engineering, Atilim University, Incek, 06836 Ankara, Turkey Correspondence should be addressed to Serkan Eryilmaz, seryilmaz@.tr Received 6 September 2011; Revised 7 December 2011; Accepted 8 December 2011 Academic Editor: Alexander P. Seyranian Copyright q 2012 Serkan Eryilmaz. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. As a generalisation of consecutive k-out-of-n:F and k-out-of-n:F system models, a consecutive k- within-m-out-of-n:F system consists of n linearly ordered components and fails if and only if there are m consecutive components which include among them at least k failed components. In this paper, we study the survival function of a consecutive k-within-m-out-of-n:F system consisting of independent but nonidentical components. We obtain exact expressions for the survival function when 2m ≥ n. A detailed analysis for consecutive 2-within-m-out-of-n:F systems is presented and the asymptotic behaviour of hazard rate of these systems is investigated using mixture representations. 1. Introduction It is a well-accepted fact that all components in an engineered system are not created equal. This in turn implies that different components may have different survival probabilities. The study of systems consisting of nonidentical components is a difficult task especially when the system has a complex structure. Some recent contributions on systems with independent