How to avoid the generation of logic loops in the construction of fault trees

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 197-207

  Demichela, M ^a   Piccinini, N ^a   Ciarambino, I ^a   Contini, S ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fault tree; Hazard Operability analysis; Loop reduction; Recursive operability analysis

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SENSORS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

HAZARD OPERABILITY ANALYSIS; LOGIC LOOPS; LOOP REDUCTION; RECURSIVE OPERABILITY ANALYSIS;

FAULT TREE ANALYSIS;

EID: 2142762993     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(03)00141-8     Document Type: Article

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