Analysis methods for fault trees that contain secondary failures

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 93-102

  Dunnett, S ^a   Andrews, J D ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fault tree analysis; Secondary failures

Indexed keywords

FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; FORMAL LOGIC; FREQUENCY AGILITY; PROBABILITY;

COMPONENT LEVEL FAILURE; SECONDARY FAILURES; SYSTEM FAILURES;

FAILURE (MECHANICAL);

FAULT BOUNDARY;

EID: 2942519275     PISSN: 09544089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/095440804774134271     Document Type: Article

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