On structured fault tree construction by modularizing control loops

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 161-173

  Cheng, Y L ^a   Yuan, J ^b  

^a HSUAN CHUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; HEAT EXCHANGERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CONTROL LOOPS;

FAULT TREE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034135354     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(99)00063-0     Document Type: Article

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