Construction of event-tree/fault-tree models from a Markov approach to dynamic system reliability

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1616-1627

  Bucci, Paolo ^a   Kirschenbaum, Jason ^a   Mangan, L Anthony ^b   Aldemir, Tunc ^b   Smith, Curtis ^c   Wood, Ted ^c  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic event tree; Dynamic fault tree; Dynamic reliability; Markov; PRA

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DYNAMIC EVENT TREE; DYNAMIC FAULT TREE; DYNAMIC RELIABILITY; STATIC MODELS;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 44349175444     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2008.01.008     Document Type: Article

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