Fault Trees

by Limnios, Nikolaos

• ISBN13: 9781905209309
• ISBN10: 1905209304
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-29
• 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, CompiFgne–France and the author of Semi-Markov Processes and Reliability and ProbabilitTs en vue des applications.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

Single-component systems.

Multi-component systems.

Construction of fault trees.

Minimal sets.

Probabilistic assessment.

Influence assessment.

Modules - phases - common modes.

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

Binary decision diagrams.

Stochastic simulation of fault trees.

BDD algorithms for fault trees

Fault trees of European benchmark

Probability results.

Main Notations.

Bibliography.

Index.

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