Safety analysis in process facilities: Comparison of fault tree and Bayesian network approaches

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 925-932

  Khakzad, Nima ^a   Khan, Faisal ^a   Amyotte, Paul ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accident analysis; Bayesian network; Fault tree analysis; Uncertainty modeling

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT ANALYSIS; ACCIDENT SCENARIOS; CATASTROPHIC ACCIDENTS; DEPENDENT FAILURE; EXPERT OPINION; FAILURE ASSESSMENT; FAULT-TREES; FUNCTIONAL UNCERTAINTY; IN-PROCESS; MODELING ASPECTS; MODELING FEATURES; MULTI STATE; PROCESS SYSTEM; SAFETY ANALYSIS; STATIC STRUCTURES; SUPERIOR TECHNIQUE; UNCERTAINTY HANDLING; UNCERTAINTY MODELING;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 79955735775     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2011.03.012     Document Type: Article

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