fault tolerance is one of the important issues in industries, such as transportation, military, chemical and nuclear sectors. reliability and safety are two vital attributes of fault tolerant systems, and redundancy is a common way to improve these parameters. this article studies the impact of including cold standby spares in system architecture. to do this, it uses the markov model of the sys...

Batubesi Dam which is located in Sorowako region in the middle part of Sulawesi island had been designed with seismic coefficient about 0.20g. The region constitutes an active earthquake zone with the recurrence frequency and magnitude of the earthquake are relatively high. The region is located on and active fault zone due to lateral fault movement (strike-slip) of Matano fault, Palukoro fault...

Grid Computing allows coordinated and controlled resource sharing and problem solving in multi-institutional, dynamic virtual organizations. Moreover, fault tolerance and task scheduling is an important issue for large scale computational grid because of its unreliable nature of grid resources. Commonly exploited techniques to realize fault tolerance is periodic Checkpointing that periodically ...

This paper presents an analog fault simulation approach based on concurrent fault detection. By performing fault simulation with fault dropping, high computational effort is saved. The concurrent fault detection can be applied to most analyses and is compatible with other speedupprocedures. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented fault simulation procedure.

HSFDONES is an expert system fault diagnosis which makes the fault diagnosis working more intelligently, HSFDONES uses the ontologybased self-leaning theory and technology to build fault diagnosis expert system. The fault diagnosis knowledge structure is defined and the relevant structure ontology and core fault ontology is researched in HSFDONES; the fault diagnosis data warehouse is built, th...

In many large-scale power plants, the structure of its auxiliary power system is complex, and the coordination of its relay protections is difficult. To enhance power supply reliability for the user terminals in the case of the distribution system to avoid interference by the fault again, rapidly complete the automatic identification, positioning, automatic fault isolation, network reconfigurat...

That faults are of fundamental importance in petroleum systems cannot be stressed enough. The role the faults play, however, is complicated by their dual nature as fluid seals and conduits. Understanding a fault’s behavior demands extensive knowledge of its past geologic history, core samples, pressure measurements, and well logs. Further complicating matters, the sealing capacity of a fault us...

This paper considers actuator-fault estimation for discrete-time descriptor systems with unknown but bounded system disturbance and measurement noise. A zonotopic fault estimation filter is designed based on the analysis of fault detectability indexes. To ensure estimation accuracy, the filter gain in the zonotopic fault estimation filter is optimized through the zonotope minimization. The desi...