A new method for explicit modelling of single failure event within different common cause failure groups

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 103, Issue , 2012, Pages 84-93

  Kančev, Duško ^a   Čepin, Marko ^b  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Common cause failures; Explicit modelling; Fault tree; Probabilistic safety assessment

Indexed keywords

ASSIGNMENT OF; BETA FACTORS; COMMON CAUSE FAILURE; COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; EVENT TREES; EXPLICIT MODELLING; FAILURE EVENTS; FAULT-TREES; PARAMETRIC MODELS; PROBABILISTIC SAFETY ASSESSMENT; SAFETY COMPONENT; SINGLE COMPONENTS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; REDUNDANCY;

SAFETY ENGINEERING;

EID: 84859633732     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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