A knowledge-based multi-dimension discrete common cause failure model

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 107-116

  Xie, Liyang ^a,b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; REDUNDANCY;

COMMON CAUSE FAILURE (CCF);

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

EID: 0032114712     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0029-5493(98)00171-x     Document Type: Article

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