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Electrical Fire Hazards Analysis of Electric Iron and Heater Using Fault Tree Analysis  

Hong, Sung-Ho (Fire Insurers Laboratories of Korea)
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International Journal of Safety / v.7, no.1, 2008 , pp. 15-20 More about this Journal
Abstract
The primary goal of this study is to analyze fire hazards of electric home appliances such as electric iron and electric heater using fault tree analysis(FTA). A fault tree(FT) is constructed and used to analyze fire hazards in electric home appliances. The fault tree is built from events that may occur in electric home appliances. The failure rate of basic events are derived from the value of experimental results and reference. And an algorithm analyzing fire in electric home appliances is suggested. We show how fault tree analysis, carried out by means of failure rate, is able to diagnose fire hazards of electric home appliances in a precise manner. We present numerical results such as fire probability of electric home appliances, importance measure, fire cause, etc. It can be helpful in preventing the fire hazards in electric home appliances.
Keywords
electrical fire; fault tree; fire hazards;
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