• DocumentCode
    1319350
  • Title

    Fault TreesߞA State of the Art Discussion

  • Author

    Fussell, Jerry B. ; Powers, Gary J. ; Bennetts, R.G.

  • Author_Institution
    Aerojet Nuclear Company, Idaho Falls, Ida. 83401.
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1974
  • fDate
    4/1/1974 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    51
  • Lastpage
    55
  • Abstract
    Fault trees are a powerful technique for describing system reliability and safety. Their synthesis is a vital design function and their analysis gives a quantitative interpretation of failure consequences. This set of papers1 gives three different ideas about the state of the art of fault trees.
  • Keywords
    Aerospace engineering; Aerospace safety; Costs; Engineering management; Failure analysis; Fault trees; Management training; Performance analysis; Reliability engineering; System analysis and design;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1974.5215704
  • Filename
    5215704