Reliability of safety-instrumented systems subject to partial testing and common-cause failures

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 121, Issue , 2014, Pages 146-151

  Jin, Hui ^a   Rausand, Marvin ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Common cause failures; Partial tests; Proof tests; Safety instrumented systems

Indexed keywords

RELIABILITY; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

COMMON CAUSE FAILURE; MODE OF OPERATIONS; PARTIAL VERIFICATION; PROBABILITY OF FAILURE ON DEMAND; PROOF TEST; SAFETY INSTRUMENTED SYSTEMS; SIMPLIFIED FORMULA;

SAFETY TESTING;

EID: 84884409954     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2013.08.006     Document Type: Article

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