DocumentCode
2973958
Title
A Tool Supporting Evaluation of Non-markovian Fault Trees
Author
Bucci, G. ; Carnevali, L. ; Vicario, E.
Author_Institution
Dipt. Sist. e Inf., Univ. di Firenze, Florence
fYear
2008
fDate
14-17 Sept. 2008
Firstpage
115
Lastpage
116
Abstract
Fault Trees are widely employed in the industrial practice to support safety and reliability analysis. Various works have improved the classic formulation by replacing fixed probabilities of leaf events with Markovian distributions over time. We present operation principles, user interface and implementation architecture of a tool supporting editing and evaluation of Fault Trees where the time of occurrence of leaf events follows a generalized probability density function.
Keywords
density functional theory; fault trees; probability; industrial practice; non-Markovian fault trees; probability density function; reliability analysis; safety analysis; Fault trees; Industrial relations; Maintenance; Probability density function; Probability distribution; Safety; Stochastic processes; Tellurium; US Department of Transportation; User interfaces;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, 2008. QEST '08. Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location
St. Malo
Print_ISBN
978-0-7695-3360-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/QEST.2008.46
Filename
4634962
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