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Component-based modeling of systems for automated fault tree generation

Aref Majdara and Toshio Wakabayashi

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2009, vol. 94, issue 6, 1076-1086

Abstract: One of the challenges in the field of automated fault tree construction is to find an efficient modeling approach that can support modeling of different types of systems without ignoring any necessary details. In this paper, we are going to represent a new system of modeling approach for computer-aided fault tree generation. In this method, every system model is composed of some components and different types of flows propagating through them. Each component has a function table that describes its input–output relations. For the components having different operational states, there is also a state transition table. Each component can communicate with other components in the system only through its inputs and outputs. A trace-back algorithm is proposed that can be applied to the system model to generate the required fault trees. The system modeling approach and the fault tree construction algorithm are applied to a fire sprinkler system and the results are presented.

Keywords: Fault trees; Automated fault tree construction; Component-based modeling; Function table; State transition table; Flows; Trace-back algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2008.12.003

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