Ideas and developments in importance measures and fault-tree techniques for reliability and risk analysis

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 99-107

  Vaurio, Jussi K ^a  

^a Prometh Solutions   (Finland)

Author keywords

Achievement; Birnbaum; Configuration; Criticality; Importance; Ranking; Risk; Risk increase; Risk reduction; Risk gain; Risk informed

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; BIRNBAUM; CONFIGURATION; CRITICALITY; IMPORTANCE; RANKING; RISK REDUCTION;

CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); ERRORS; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK PERCEPTION; SAFETY FACTOR; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 70350568142     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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