Decomposition Methods for Fault Tree Analysis

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn R-29, Issue 2, 1980, Pages 136-138

  Rosenthal, Arnon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Fault tree analysis; Module

Indexed keywords

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0019024595     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.1980.5220753     Document Type: Article

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