Extension of ISA TR84.00.02 PFD equations to KooN architectures

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 707-715

  Oliveira, Luiz Fernando ^a   Abramovitch, Rafael Nelson ^a  

^a DNV GL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Common cause failure; KooN architecture; PFD equations; Safety instrumented system; SIL verification

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUATIONS; COMMON-CAUSE FAILURE; GENERALIZED EQUATIONS; IEC 61508; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; REDUNDANT CONFIGURATION; SAFETY INSTRUMENTED SYSTEMS; SIL VERIFICATION;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 77951032262     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2010.01.006     Document Type: Article

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