Fault Trees
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First published:1 January 2007
Print ISBN:9781905209309 |Online ISBN:9780470612484 |DOI:10.1002/9780470612484
Copyright © 2007 ISTE Ltd.
About this book
Fault tree analysis is an important technique in determining the safety and dependability
of complex systems. Fault trees are used as a major tool in the study of system safety
as well as in reliability and availability studies.
The basic methods – construction, logical analysis, probability evaluation and influence study – are described in this book. The following extensions of fault trees, non-coherent fault trees, fault trees with delay and multi-performance fault trees, are also explained. Traditional algorithms for fault tree analysis are presented, as well as more recent algorithms based on binary decision diagrams (BDD).
The basic methods – construction, logical analysis, probability evaluation and influence study – are described in this book. The following extensions of fault trees, non-coherent fault trees, fault trees with delay and multi-performance fault trees, are also explained. Traditional algorithms for fault tree analysis are presented, as well as more recent algorithms based on binary decision diagrams (BDD).
Author Bios
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.