Introduction to Fault Tree Analysis

Abstract

Fault tree analysis has proved to be a useful analytical tool for the reliability and safety analysis of complex systems. This is a semi-expository introduction to the mathematics of fault tree analysis. Many of the concepts of coherent structure theory have been used. Bounds on the system reliability when components are dependent (that is, are associated) are given. Algorithms to find the min-cut-sets and related bounds, together with various means for computing the probability of the Top Event are presented. Measures of event importance are discussed. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the concepts.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0774072

Entities

People

  • Purnendu Chatterjee
  • Richard E. Barlow

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

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Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • California
  • Engineering
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • False Alarms
  • Fault Tree Analysis
  • Mathematics
  • Operations Research
  • Pressure Switches
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Reliability
  • Safety
  • Safety Analysis
  • United States
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

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