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Applications of fault tree analysis to maintenance interval extension and vulnerability assessment
Author(s) -
Lapp Steven A.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
process safety progress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.378
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1547-5913
pISSN - 1066-8527
DOI - 10.1002/prs.10071
Subject(s) - fault tree analysis , vulnerability (computing) , reliability engineering , interval (graph theory) , process (computing) , tree (set theory) , computer science , vulnerability assessment , fault (geology) , extension (predicate logic) , engineering , data mining , mathematics , computer security , mathematical analysis , combinatorics , psychological resilience , seismology , psychotherapist , programming language , psychology , geology , operating system
Abstract Fault tree analysis is a technique used to quantify the failure rates associated with potentially hazardous systems. The effects and interactions of various process subsystems are explicitly analyzed in a fault tree. Information on how process subsystems interact is extremely useful when decisions are made concerning lengths of maintenance intervals and assessments of vulnerability. This paper shows how that information can be extracted from an existing fault tree and used for decision making. © 2005 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Process Saf Prog, 2005