Fault-tree analysis is commonly used for risk assessment of industrial systems. Several computer packages are available to carry out the analysis. Despite its common usage there are associated limitations of the technique in terms of accuracy and efficiency when dealing with large fault-tree structures. The most recent approach to aid the analysis of the fault-tree diagram is the BDD (binary de...

We have presented trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy number. Arithmetic operations of trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy number is presented based on (α, β)-cuts. We have presented intuitionistic fuzzy fault tree analysis using trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy number. In application of intuitionistic fuzzy fault tree analysis, we have computed failure of fire protection system taking failure of eac...

The fault tree analysis tool Metaprime allows reliability engineers to make, in an interactive way, exact qualitative and quantitative analysis of very complex fault trees that could not be completely treated by previously available analysis technologies. The qualitative aspect of the analysis of a fault tree consists in computing all or part of the set of prime implicants (i.e., minimal cut se...

Fault trees provide a graphical and logical framework for analyzing the reliability of systems. A fault tree provides a conceptually simple modeling framework to represent the system-level interactions between component reliabilities. Dynamic fault trees have been shown particularly useful for reliability analysis of embedded computer systems. Dynamic fault trees are a superset of traditional (...

reliability of a system is the probability that it will function as intended for the required period of time. the opposite of reliability is failure probability per unit time or over time, such as a life cycle. following a review of existing reliability codes and approaches, comprehensive approaches to assess the reliability of offshore structures are described, including probabilistic analysis...

Fault Tree Analysis is a very popular technique to assess safety and reliability of technical systems. However, being a combinatorial model, Fault Trees can only express which combinations of failures contribute to a certain hazard or accident. There is no means to model sequences of actions and temporal orders of states and events. Since today technical systems are often controlled by software...

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) has become a popular tool for use in the Space Industry for the System Safety Engineer. The fault tree is used for everything from tracking hazard reports to investigating accidents, as well as presentations to management. Yet, experience in the space industry has shown the fault tree is used most often for purposes other than its original intent, namely for evaluating...

This talk will review two case studies that examine the effectiveness of using Fuzzy Top Event Probability (FTEP) over the conventional approach. Case study one relates to flash vessel in an ammonia tank, while in case study two ,using fuzzy set theory, the FTEP has been estimated for the existing ammonia storage tank in a large fertilizer complex located in Mumbai, India. In addition, a new fo...

This paper presents a method to include safety system conflicts into a fault tree analysis (FTA) with semantic extensions of fault events. The verification of the incoherent fault tree is done with an SMT-Solver. As an example a networked setup of medical devices for extracorporeal lung assist was analyzed. The method is developed as a basis for improved safety analysis of networked systems.