Safety achieved by the safe failure fraction (SFF) in IEC 61508

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 662-669

  Yoshimura, Itaru ^a   Sato, Yoshinobu ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Functional safety; Safe failure fraction; Safe state; Safety integrity level; Trip

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL SAFETY; SAFE FAILURE FRACTION; SAFE STATE; SAFETY INTEGRITY LEVEL; TRIP;

SAFETY DEVICES;

EID: 57749117364     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2008.928250     Document Type: Article

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