• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.180-190
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• 1997

A new method in the fault tree analysis (FTA) for the reliability calculation is suggested. Two steps are necessary in traditional method in evaluation of the occurrence probability of top event in fault tree (FT). The first step is to find the minimal outsets, and the second one is to substitute the result into the poincare equation. In order to reduce the enormous computing time of this method, lots of rapid algorithms have been developed. Almost of all achievements were, however, based on the partial structural properties of FT. In this paper, the FT is transformed to a non-linear graph G which has the same minimal outsets of original n, and then the reliability is calculated using the domination theory. In this new method, the required number of equation terms are at most $2^n$ (n is node number of graph G), while $2^m$-1 (m is the number of minimal cutsets) calculation terms are required in the poincare equation in traditional method. Since m>>n in general. our new method reduces the calculation time significantly.

• Journal of Platform Technology
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.47-54
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• 2018

Predictive analysis in the hardware industry can be performed at an appropriate point in time to prevent failure of production facilities and reduce management costs. This helps to perform more efficient and scientific maintenance through automation of failure analysis. Among them, predictive management aims to prevent the occurrence of anomalous state by identifying and improving the abnormal state based on the gathering, analysis, and scientific data management of facilities using information technology and constructing prediction model do. In this study, we made a fault tree through the Relex tool and analyzed the error code of the hardware to study the safety.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.359-366
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• 2009

CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) is considered as the most promising interim solution to deal with the greenhouse gas such as $CO_2$ responsible for global warming. Even though carefully chosen geologic formations are known to contain stored gas for a long time period, there are potential risks of leakage. Up to now, applicable risk assessment procedures for the leakage of $CO_2$ are not available. This study presents a basis for risk analysis applicable to a complex geologic storage system. It starts with the classification of potential leakage pathways. Receptors and the leakage effect on them are identified and quantified. Then, a fault tree is constructed, which yields the minimum cut set (i.e., the most vulnerable leakage pathway) and quantifies the probability of the leakage risk through the cut set. The methodology will provide a tool for risk assessment in a CCS project. The outcomes of the assessment will not only ensure the safety of the CCS system but also offer a reliable and efficient monitoring plan.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.66 no.1
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• pp.33-39
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• 2017

A top priority in the design of underwater vehicle is to guarantee the dependability of the electric system because failure of the electrical power supply system is directly related to the life of the passengers. In this paper, we present four kinds of alternative designs to improve reliability of electrical system in underwater vehicle. To reduce the risk and to increase availability of the electrical system, we use the redundancy of the grid structure and power converter. For all design alternatives, we carry out Fault Tree Analysis. Based on the FTA result, we implement RAM simulation to compare the risk and availability for the proposed design alternatives.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.87-90
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• 2012

원자력발전소에 사용되는 모든 시스템은 IEEE에서 최고 수준의 안전도인 CLASS 1E로 분류된다. 그중에서 안전계통은 원자력발전소 안전에 관련한 모든 분야를 관리하는 계통이다. 산업이 발전함에 따라 안전계통 또한 그 규모와 복잡성이 높아지고 있고, 이에 적용되는 요구사항 또한 엄격해지고 있다. 따라서 발전소에 적용되는 안전 동작에 대한 기준을 결정하기 위해서 철저한 오류 예측분석이 수행 되어야 한다. 그 중에서도 NUREG-0492로 규정되어 있는 결함수목분석(Fault Tree Analysis)은 연역적 오류 예측 분석방법으로 원자력 발전소, 우주 산업 등에 관련된 분야는 본 방법을 통하여 오류 예측 분석이 이루어 져야한다. 본 논문에서 원전안전계통을 관리하는 구현 모델인 원전안전등급제어기기(Safety Programmable Logic Controller)에 대하여 결함수목분석을 통한 오류 예측 분석을 하였다. 또한, 위의 구조에 대하여 MSC(Message Sequence Chart)를 통한 모델링을 수행하여, 결함수목분석을 적용하는 과정에서 신뢰도 향상을 더하였다.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.118-125
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• 1992

Studies upto date for estimating the reliability by means of one accarate value contain risks of many erroneous options. The objective of this paper is to presents a fault tree analueis model on the basis of the membership functions of trape Zoidal fuzzy number after imposing an interval of Confidence on the residual possibility theory. The results from the model Show that the value of Stability was reliable.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.115-130
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• 2012

These days, most of safety-critical systems, which are systems those failures or malfunction may result in death or serious injury to people, or loss or severe damage to social systems, or environmental harm, are being built of embedded software or loaded controlling software systems on computers, electrical and electronic components or devices. There are a lot kind of fault analysis methods to evaluate safety of the safety-critical systems equipped computers, electrical and electronic components or devices with software. However, the only assessment method to evaluate software safety of a safety-critical system is not enough to analysis properly on account of the various types and characteristic of software systems by progress of information technology. Therefore, this paper proposes the integrated evaluation method and carries out a case study for the software safety of safety-critical system which embedded or loaded software sizes are small and control response times are not sensitive by use of two security analysis methods which are Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Fault Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA) for ubiquitous healthcare system.

• Fire Protection Technology
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• s.55
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• pp.13-18
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• 2013

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.273-282
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• 2023

Probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) has been widely used to evaluate the seismic risk of nuclear power plants (NPPs). However, studies on seismic PSA for process plants, such as gas plants, oil refineries, and chemical plants, have been scarce. This is because the major disasters to which these process plants are vulnerable include explosions, fires, and release (or dispersion) of toxic chemicals. However, seismic PSA is essential for the plants located in regions with significant earthquake risks. Seismic PSA entails probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA), event tree analysis (ETA), fault tree analysis (FTA), and fragility analysis for the structures and essential equipment items. Among those analyses, ETA can depict the accident sequence for core damage, which is the worst disaster and top event concerning NPPs. However, there is no general top event with regard to process plants. Therefore, PSA cannot be directly applied to process plants. Moreover, there is a paucity of studies on developing fragility curves for various equipment. This paper introduces PSA for gas plants based on FTA, which is then transformed into Bayesian network, that is, a probabilistic graph model that can aid risk-informed decision-making. Finally, the proposed method is applied to a gas plant, and several decision-making cases are demonstrated.

• IE interfaces
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.68-77
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• 2010

Digital reactor protection system which consists of many identical modules, is fault- tolerant to provide high safety. The modules themselves including DSP(digital signal processing) card are also fault-tolerant in nature. This paper assesses the safety for being-designed digital reactor protection system of 2-out-of-4 G structure with lockout. Some interesting design alternatives are compared. Fault tree analysis for assessing system safety is performed by Relex software. The selected reactor protection system fully satisfies EPRIURD stipulation of mean failure time of 50 years.