• DocumentCode
    1345474
  • Title

    The Fail-Safe Feature of the Lapp & Powers Fault Tree

  • Author

    Locks, Mitchell O.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Administrative Sciences; Oklahoma State University; Stillwater, Oklahoma 74074 USA.
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1980
  • fDate
    4/1/1980 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    10
  • Lastpage
    11
  • Abstract
    In response to the Editor´s suggestion, 3 states of the Lapp & Powers fault-tree model are distinguished, `good´, `failed safe´ and `failed unsafe´. Both the logical and the probability functions are given separately for both failed safe and good events as well as the probability calculations. A simplified 2-component example is also discussed to illustrate the relationship between XOR gates in fault trees and fail-safe systems and subsystems.
  • Keywords
    Bars; Boolean algebra; Boolean functions; Classification tree analysis; Equations; Failure analysis; Fault trees; Power system modeling; Probability; Reliability; Boolean logic; Fail-safe systems; Fault Tree; System analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1980.5220686
  • Filename
    5220686
    • Link To Document
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