Fault Trees

by Limnios, Nikolaos

• ISBN13: 9780470612484
• ISBN10: 0470612487
• Edition: 1st
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-01-13
• Publisher: Wiley-ISTE

Summary

Fault tree analysis is an important technique in determining the safety and dependability of complex systems. Fault trees are used as a major tool in the study of system safety as well as in reliability and availability studies.
The basic methods – construction, logical analysis, probability evaluation and influence study – are described in this book. The following extensions of fault trees, non-coherent fault trees, fault trees with delay and multi-performance fault trees, are also explained. Traditional algorithms for fault tree analysis are presented, as well as more recent algorithms based on binary decision diagrams (BDD).

Author Biography

Nikolaos Limnios is a Professor at the University of Technology, Compiègne, France. His research includes reliability, applied stochastic processes and statistics. He has written and edited many books in the reliability field.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

Chapter 1. Single-component systems.

Chapter 2. Multi-component systems.

Chapter 3. Construction of fault trees.

Chapter 4. Minimal sets.

Chapter 5. Probabilistic assessment.

Chapter 6. Influence assessment.

Chapter 7. Modules – phases – common modes.

Chapter 8. Extensions: non-coherent, delay and multistate fault trees.

Chapter 9. Binary decision diagrams.

Chapter 10. Stochastic simulation of fault trees.

Appendices: A. BDD algorithms for fault trees; B. Fault trees of European benchmark; C. Probability results.

Main Notations.

Bibliography.

Index.