Functional block diagrams and automated construction of event trees

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 185-214

  Papazoglou, Ioannis A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY AND RADIATION PROTECTION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BOILING WATER REACTORS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; FUNCTIONS; GRAPH THEORY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EVENT TREES; FUNCTIONAL BLOCK DIAGRAMS;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 0032157995     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(98)00011-8     Document Type: Article

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