Probability of failure of safety-critical systems subject to partial tests

Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Brissaud, Florent ^a   Barros, Anne ^b   Bérenguer, Christophe ^b  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L ENVIRONNEMENT INDUSTRIEL ET DES RISQUES INERIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

Author keywords

Full tests; Partial tests; Probability of failure on demand; Proof tests; Safety instrumented systems

Indexed keywords

AS GOOD AS NEW; K-OUT-OF-N; PARTIAL STROKE TESTING; PROBABILITY OF FAILURE; PROBABILITY OF FAILURE ON DEMAND; PROOF TEST; SAFETY CRITICAL SYSTEMS; SAFETY INSTRUMENTED SYSTEMS; SYSTEM AVAILABILITY; SYSTEM FAILURES; TEST EFFECTIVENESS; TEST STRATEGIES; TEST TIME; VISUAL INSPECTION;

MAINTAINABILITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

TESTING;

EID: 77952787654     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RAMS.2010.5447972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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