Quantification of Fault Trees Containing Mutually Exclusive Events

The paper deals with the analysis of fault trees containing mutually exclusive (disjoint) events. A new method based on a labelling technique and working on fault trees represented in the form of Binary Decision Diagrams (BDD) is described. Mutually exclusive events are labelled to distinguish them from independent events. The label drives the application of the new rules for the construction of the BDD and for the application of the equations for determining the unavailability, the unconditional failure and repair frequencies as well as some components’ importance measures

CONTINI Sergio; 

2007-07-06

TAYLOR & FRANCIS

JRC35835

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC35835,