A fuzzy reliability assessment of basic events of fault trees through qualitative data processing

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 243, Issue , 2014, Pages 50-69

  Purba, Julwan Hendry ^a,e   Lu, Jie ^a   Zhang, Guangquan ^a   Pedrycz, Witold ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^e NATIONAL NUCLEAR ENERGY AGENCY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Engineering system reliability; Failure probability; Fuzzy reliability algorithm; Nuclear safety assessment; Qualitative data processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); LINGUISTICS; MODELS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

ENGINEERING SYSTEMS; FAILURE PROBABILITY; FUZZY RELIABILITY; NUCLEAR SAFETY; QUALITATIVE DATA;

SAFETY ENGINEERING;

EID: 84898547499     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fss.2013.06.009     Document Type: Article

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