Algorithmic fault tree synthesis for control loops

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 427-441

  Wang, Yanjun ^a   Rogers, William J ^a   West, Harry H ^a   Mannan, M Sam ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Cause and effect models; Control loops; Fault tree models; Fault tree synthesis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS;

CONTROL LOOPS;

CHEMICAL PLANTS;

ALGORITHM; CHEMICAL PLANT; DESIGN;

EID: 0042924318     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-4230(03)00043-3     Document Type: Article

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