New approaches to evaluating fault trees

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 89-96

  Sinnamon, R M ^a   Andrews, J D ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY SEQUENCES; DECISION THEORY; DIGITAL COMPUTERS; PROBABILITY;

BINARY DECISION DIAGRAM; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031268797     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(96)00036-1     Document Type: Article

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