Treatment of general dependencies in system fault-tree and risk analysis

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 278-287

  Vaurio, Jussi K ^a  

^a Fortum Oil and Gas Oy   (Finland)

Author keywords

Common cause failure; Dependent failure; Fault tree; Implicit explicit method; Standby safety system

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY; DEPENDENT FAILURE; FAULT TREE COMPUTER CODES;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0036735040     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2002.801848     Document Type: Article

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