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http://dx.doi.org/10.12812/ksms.2011.13.3.045

Improvement Strategy of System Unavailability by Review of Logical Structure and Reliability Importance of Reliability Block Diagram (RED) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)  

Choi, Sung-Woon (Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Kyungwon University)
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Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science / v.13, no.3, 2011 , pp. 45-53 More about this Journal
Abstract
The research proposes seven elimination rules of redundant gates and blocks in Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Reliability Block Diagram (RBD). The computational complexity of cut sets and path sets is NP-hard. In order to reduce the complexity of Minimal Cut Set (MCS) and Minimal Path Set (MPS), the paper classifies generation algorithms. Moreover, the study develops six implementation steps which reflect structural importance (SI) and reliability importance (RI) from Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) that a priority of using the functional logic among components is to reduce (improve) the system unavailability (or availability). The proposed steps include efficient generation of state structure function by Rare Event Enumeration (REA). Effective use of importance measures, such as SI and ill measures, is presented based on the number and the size of MCS and MPS which is generated from the reference[5] of this paper. In addition, numerical examples are presented for practitioners to obtain the comprehensive understanding of six steps that is proposed in this research.
Keywords
FTA; RBD; MCS; MPS; REA; RCM; Structural Importance; Reliability Importance; Priority;
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