Combining dynamic fault trees and event trees for probabilistic risk assessment

Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 214-219

  Xu, Hong ^a,b   Dugan, Joanne Bechta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic fault tree; Event tree; Markov Chain; Module

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC FAULT TREE; EVENT TREE; MODULES; DYNAMIC FAULT TREES; EVENT TREE ANALYSIS; EVENT TREES; FAULT TREE ANALYSES (FTA); FAULT-TREES; IDENTIFYING SYSTEM; MODULE; PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; WASHING MACHINES; MAINTAINABILITY; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION; QUALITY CONTROL;

FAULT TREE ANALYSIS;

EID: 2342468597     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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