The theory and quantification of common cause shock events for redundant standby systems

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 289-305

  Vaurio, Jussi K ^a  

^a Fortum Oil and Gas Oy   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMMON CAUSE FAILURE MODELS; COMMON CAUSE SHOCK EVENTS; EXTERNAL SHOCKS; GENERAL FAULT TREE MODELS; REDUNDANT STANDBY SYSTEMS; SYSTEM UNAVAILABILITY EQUATIONS; TIME RELATED GENERAL MULTIPLE FAILURE RATES;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; CORRELATION METHODS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; REDUNDANCY; STANDBY POWER SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL TESTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 0028196532     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0951-8320(94)90034-5     Document Type: Article

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