Uncertainty analysis of common cause failure in safety instrumented systems

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

Volumn 225, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 450-460

  Mechri, W ^a   Simon, C ^b   Ben Othman, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN AUTOMATIQUE DE NANCY   (France)

Author keywords

Common cause failure; Fault trees; Fuzzy numbers; Safety instrumented systems; Safety integrity level; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMMON CAUSE FAILURE; FAULT-TREES; FUZZY NUMBERS; SAFETY INSTRUMENTED SYSTEMS; SAFETY INTEGRITY LEVEL; UNCERTAINTY;

FORESTRY; FUZZY RULES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

INSTRUMENTS; SAFETY; SURVEYING;

EID: 84856272980     PISSN: 1748006X     EISSN: 17480078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1748007810395668     Document Type: Conference Paper

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