Posbist fault tree analysis of coherent systems

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 141-148

  Huang, Hong Zhong ^a   Tong, Xin ^a   Zuo, Ming J ^b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coherent system; Fault tree; Posbist fault tree analysis; Posbist reliability theory; Possibility distributions; Structure functions

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COHERENT SYSTEM; FAULT TREE; POSBIST FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; POSBIST RELIABILITY THEORY; POSSIBILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS;

FAULT TREE ANALYSIS;

EID: 2142808778     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2003.11.002     Document Type: Article

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