New methods to determine the importance measures of initiating and enabling events in fault tree analysis

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 775-784

  Contini, Sergio ^a   Matuzas, Vaidas ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Enabling events; Fault tree analysis; Importance measures; Initiating events; Non coherent fault trees

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION METHODS; DESIGN IMPROVEMENTS; ENABLING EVENTS; EXACT METHODS; EXPECTED NUMBER OF FAILURES; FAILURE DIAGNOSIS; FAILURE FREQUENCY; FAULT-TREES; IMPORTANCE MEASURE; IMPORTANCE MEASURES; INITIATING EVENTS; NON-COHERENT FAULT TREES; SYSTEM FAILURES; UPPER BOUND;

BINARY TREES; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 79955522171     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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