System Reliability Analysis: Foundations.

Abstract

The purpose of a system reliability analysis is to acquire information about a system of interest relative to making decisions based on considerations of availability, reliability, and safety as well as any inherent engineering risks. The philosophy and guidelines for a system analysis have been discussed in several excellent introductory chapters by David Haasl in a Fault Tree Handbook (1981). Broadly speaking, there are two important aspects to a system analysis: (1) an INDUCTIVE ANALYSIS stage and (2) A DEDUCTIVE ANALYSIS stage. In the inductive analysis stage we gather and organize available information on the system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA123055

Entities

People

  • Richard E. Barlow

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Algorithms
  • California
  • Computational Complexity
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Downtime
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Fault Tree Analysis
  • Maintenance
  • Mathematics
  • Operations Research
  • Reliability
  • Test Facilities
  • Vacuum Chambers
  • X Rays

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

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  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Theoretical Analysis.