Computer-Aided Reliability and Safety Analysis of Complex Systems

Abstract This paper is a review of the state of the art in the area of computer-aided reliability and safety analysis. It covers both reliability graph analysis and fault tree analysis. By comparing the methods developed for reliability graph analysis with those of fault tree analysis, it is seen that the two fields have been developed rather independently and yet a unified view and a more integrated approach to the problem is shown to be possible. Several new algorithms developed by the authors are given which detect minimal path and cut sets from a reliability graph and a fault tree.

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