Diagnosis of multiple faults with flow-based functional models: The functional diagnosis with efforts and flows approach

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 137-150

  Chittaro, Luca ^a   Ranon, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fault diagnosis; Functional modelling; Functional reasoning

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FAULT DIAGNOSIS; FUNCTIONAL MODELING; FUNCTIONAL REASONING;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033133931     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(98)00059-3     Document Type: Article

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