Fault Trees
By Nikolaos Limnios

Index

A

algorithm
Abraham, 86
Anchek, 73
BDD, 181
Brown, 96
Fatram, 75, 76
Inmin, 77
LZ, 74
Micsup, 73
Mocus, 71, 74, 76
Olmos and Wolf, 114
Schneeweiss, 95
SW, 77
Von Neumann, 159
Willie, 114
availability, 25
instantaneous, 25
limited, 26
mean, 26
mean limited, 27

B

base
complete, 127
irredundant, 127
minimal, 127
of a function, 127
BDD, 143
complexity, 153
developed, 143
formal, 145
prime implicants, 151
probabilistic assessment, 148
reduced, 143
benchmark
FT, 187
Boolean algebra, 33
bounds
of inclusion-exclusion, 47
of relability, 46
of minimal sets, 47
min-max, 47

C

coherent
FT non-, 123
common mode, 113, 121
complexity
algorithmic, 78
consensus, 128
term of-, 128
cut, 41, 68
minimal, 41, 68

D

decomposition
modular of an FT, 111
degree
failure, 19
hazard, 19
repair, 19
risk, 19
delay
FT with-, 123, 129
development
inclusion-exclusion, 43, 84
disjoint product, 44, 85, 91
distribution
log-normal, 23
domain
of an operator, 53

E

event
complementary, 53
elementary, 53
essential, 68
existence, 18
intermediary, 53
occurrence, 18
pertinent, 68
rare, 165
repeat, 53
-top, 53

F

factorization, 46, 88
formula of-, 46
formula
Shannon, 46
function (the structure)
organising, 36
the structure, 33
monotonic, 33
dual, 38
function
distribution, 18
of structure
coherent, 36
multistate, 133
probability density, 18

I

implicant, 127
prime, 127
implicant, 128
implicant
prime, 127
importance, 103
factor of-
probabilistic, 106
structural, 105
uncertainty, 109

K

Kitt, 86

L

law
binomial, 28
Erlang, 24
exponential, 23
gamma, 24
geometric, 28
normal, 23
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