Augmenting defense-in-depth with the concepts of observability and diagnosability from Control Theory and Discrete Event Systems

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 184-193

  Bakolas, Efstathios ^a   Saleh, Joseph H ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident; Defense in depth; Diagnosability; Observability; Safety diagnosability principle

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT CAUSATION; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; CONTROL PROBLEMS; DEFENSE IN DEPTH; DIAGNOSABILITY; DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS; ENERGY MODEL; HIDDEN FAILURE; INFORMED DECISION; INTRINSIC NATURE; PROTECTIVE LAYERS; SAFETY BARRIERS; SAFETY CONSTRAINT; SAFETY PROFESSIONALS; SAFETY STRATEGY; SEQUENCE OF EVENTS; SYSTEM SAFETY; TEXAS CITY; U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; INFORMATION THEORY; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; OBSERVABILITY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REDUNDANCY; REFINING; SYSTEM THEORY;

NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS;

EID: 78649316030     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2010.09.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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