Title: Identification method of independent module for dynamic fault tree with interdependent basic events and repeated events

Authors: Hong-Lin Zhang; Chun-Yuan Zhang; Dong Liu

Addresses: School of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha City, Hunan Province, 410073, China. ' School of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha City, Hunan Province, 410073, China. ' Key Lab of National Defense Technology, Academy of Equipment Command and Technology, Beijing City, 101400, China

Abstract: Modular analysis is always used to reduce the complexity in fault tree analysis. This paper proposes a method to find all the independent modules in Dynamic Fault Tree (DFT) with interdependent basic events and repeated events. This method converts DFT to dependent tree according the dependency relations of the nodes. Through the analysis of properties of each node, all independent modules and minimum independent modules can be obtained. Finally the experiment shows that this method can solve the case which cannot be solved by previous methods, and it is convenient and effective.

Keywords: independent module identification; interdependent basic events; repeated events; DFT; dynamic fault trees; reliability analysis; independent modules.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2012.046047

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 2012 Vol.43 No.2, pp.168 - 178

Published online: 27 Mar 2012 *

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