ISSN:
1573-7640
Keywords:
Boolean algebra
;
Boolean difference
;
component failure
;
fault tree
;
probability
;
system reliability
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Computer Science
Notes:
Abstract For an electrical, mechanical, or hybrid system described diagramatically as a network of interconnected components, fault tree modeling of system reliability as a function of individual component failure probabilities gives rise to logic expressions obtained from the network connections. Application of the method of Boolean differences in the analysis of such Boolean expressions is discussed, and it is shown that the influence of the status of specific components on the reliability of the total system may be investigated by straightforward algebraic operations on the network failure function.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00991073
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