Fault Trees
Published on 12. January 2010
150 pages
978-0-470-39461-8 (ISBN)
Description
Fault tree analysis is an important technique in determining thesafety and dependability of complex systems. Fault trees are usedas a major tool in the study of system safety as well as inreliability and availability studies.
The basic methods - construction, logical analysis,probability evaluation and influence study - are described inthis book. The following extensions of fault trees, non-coherentfault trees, fault trees with delay and multi-performance faulttrees, are also explained. Traditional algorithms for fault treeanalysis are presented, as well as more recent algorithms based onbinary decision diagrams (BDD).
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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.
Content
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.
