Assessment of the expected number and frequency of failures of periodically tested systems

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 118, Issue , 2013, Pages 61-70

  Cacheux, Pierre Joseph ^a   Collas, Stéphane ^a   Dutuit, Yves ^b   Folleau, Cyrille ^c   Signoret, Jean Pierre ^d   Thomas, Philippe ^c  

^a CSTJF   (France)

^b TOTAL Professor Associates   (France)

^c SATODEV   (France)

^d TOTAL Technology Specialist   (France)

Author keywords

Failure frequency; Fault tree; Periodically tested systems; Petri net; PFH; Safety instrumented systems

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); MONTE CARLO METHODS; PETRI NETS;

FAILURE FREQUENCY; FAULT-TREES; FUNCTIONAL SAFETY; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; PFH; RELIABILITY AREAS; SAFETY INSTRUMENTED SYSTEMS;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84878245857     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2013.04.014     Document Type: Article

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