Constructing Fault-Trees by Stepwise Refinement
- 1 October 1982
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Reliability
- Vol. R-31 (4) , 333-338
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tr.1982.5221369
Abstract
The construction of fault-trees is considered as a sequence of decisions concerning the decomposition of events into subevents. The process of successive refinements of specifications is illustrated by examples. It is shown that cut-set, path-set, failure rate, and reliability bound information is easily obtainable in parallel with the stepwise analysis of the system.Keywords
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