Joint failure importance for noncoherent fault trees

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 435-443

  Lu, Lixuan ^a   Jiang, Jin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birnbaum importance; Canadian deuterium uranium nuclear power plant; Coherent fault tree; Joint failure importance; Noncoherent fault tree; Probabilistic safety assessment

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

COHERENT FAULT TREE; JOINT FAILURE IMPORTANCE; NONCOHERENT FAULT TREE; PROBABILISTIC SAFETY ASSESSMENT;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 34548609952     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2007.898574     Document Type: Article

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