Quantification of uncertainty in fault tree analysis with correlated basic events

Reliability, Risk and Safety: Back to the Future

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1619-1628

  Karanki, D R ^a   Dang, V N ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON CAUSE FAILURE; COMPUTER CODES; CORRELATED DATA; FAILURE DATA; FAILURE PROBABILITY; FAULT-TREES; LARGE-SCALE PROBLEM; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NATAF TRANSFORMATION; PARTIAL CORRELATION; PROBABILISTIC SAFETY ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; PROPAGATION OF UNCERTAINTIES; STATISTICAL CORRELATION; STATISTICAL DEPENDENCIES; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY;

FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RELIABILITY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84861708905     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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