New insight into the average probability of failure on demand and the probability of dangerous failure per hour of safety instrumented systems

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability

Volumn 224, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 75-86

  Innal, F ^a   Dutuit, Y ^b   Rauzy, A ^c   Signoret, J P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATNA   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^c DASSAULT SYSTÈMES   (France)

^d CSTJF   (France)

Author keywords

fault tree; IEC 61508 standard; Petri nets with predicates; piecewise Markovian models; probability of failure per hour; safety instrumented system

Indexed keywords

FAULT-TREES; IEC 61508; IEC 61508 STANDARD; MARKOVIAN MODEL; PIECE-WISE; PROBABILITY OF FAILURE; SAFETY INSTRUMENTED SYSTEMS;

GRAPH THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; PETRI NETS; STANDARDS; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 77953831739     PISSN: 1748006X     EISSN: 17480078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/1748006XJRR278     Document Type: Article

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