MatCarloRe: An integrated FT and Monte Carlo Simulink tool for the reliability assessment of dynamic fault tree

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 10334-10342

  Manno, Gabriele ^a   Chiacchio, Ferdinando ^a   Compagno, Lucio ^a   D'Urso, Diego ^a   Trapani, Natalia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continuous Time Markov Chain; Dynamic fault tree; Monte Carlo simulation; Reliability assessment

Indexed keywords

CALCULATING TIME; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; CONTINUOUS TIME MARKOV CHAIN; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; DYNAMIC FAULT TREES; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; HIGH-LEVEL MODELING; HUMAN OPERATOR; MATHEMATICAL BASIS; MODULARIZATIONS; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NEW PRODUCT; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS; REAL APPLICATIONS; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SIMULINK; STATE SPACE MODEL; STATE-SPACE EXPLOSION; SYSTEMIC MODELING;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION; PRODUCT DESIGN; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STATE SPACE METHODS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84861183705     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.12.020     Document Type: Article

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