Common cause failure probabilities in standby safety system fault tree analysis with testing - Scheme and timing dependencies

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 43-57

  Vaurio, J K ^a,b  

^a Fortum Oil and Gas Oy   (Finland)

^b LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dependent failures; Explicit; Fault tree; Implicit; Redundant; Risk; Safety; Standby; System; Unavailability

Indexed keywords

COSTS; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

STANDBY SAFETY SYSTEMS;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037226554     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(02)00170-9     Document Type: Article

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