Fault Trees

Nikolaos Limnios is a Professor at the University of Technology, Compiegne, France. His research includes reliability, applied stochastic processes and statistics. He has written and edited many books in the reliability field.

Introduction. Chapter 1. Single-component systems. Chapter 2. Multi-component systems. Chapter 3. Construction of fault trees. Chapter 4. Minimal sets. Chapter 5. Probabilistic assessment. Chapter 6. Influence assessment. Chapter 7. Modules - phases - common modes. Chapter 8. Extensions: non-coherent, delay and multistate fault trees. Chapter 9. Binary decision diagrams. Chapter 10. Stochastic simulation of fault trees. Appendices: A. BDD algorithms for fault trees; B. Fault trees of European benchmark; C. Probability results. Main Notations. Bibliography. Index.