The Synthesis of Fault Trees Dept. of Chemical Engrg., Carnegie-Mellon Univ. Pittsburgh, PA

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Lapp, Steven A., author.

Conference Name:

1978 Automotive Engineering Congress and Exposition (1978-02-27 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1978

Summary:

In order for fault tree analysis (FTA) to be useful in the assessment and control of risk, the synthesis of the trees should be: 1) Routine -- so that project engineers, et cetera will use it. 2) Rapid -- so that it won't slow down the project. 3) Accurate -- so that the results will have some meaningful relationship to the actual risk. 4) Flexible -- so that the synthesis procedure could be used on a wide range of systems. We present an algorithm which uses directed graph (digraph) models of the cause and effect relationships between variables and events. Given the models, the algorithm will deduce the combinatorially correct fault tree for the system. The models and the algorithm are described and tested on two examples

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Publisher Number:

780166

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