• DocumentCode
    1342413
  • Title

    Time Dependent Unavailability Analysis of Nuclear Safety Systems

  • Author

    Vesely, W.E. ; Goldberg, F.F.

  • Author_Institution
    Special Assistant for Methodology; 5650 Nicholson Lane; Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research; Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Washington, DC 20555 USA.
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1977
  • Firstpage
    257
  • Lastpage
    260
  • Abstract
    A method is presented to predict the time-dependent system unavailability, which includes consideration of the detailed effects of different periodic testing schemes. The FRANTIC computer code is described; it has been developed to study applications of the approach.
  • Keywords
    Accidents; Application software; Availability; Differential equations; Failure analysis; Hardware; Humans; Monitoring; Safety; System testing; Availability; Safety systems; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1977.5220146
  • Filename
    5220146