Citation

Parmar JC, Lees FP. Reliab. Eng. 1987; 17(4): 277-302.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0143-8174(87)90093-X

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Many of the techniques introduced in recent years for the identification and assessment of hazards in process plants have the common feature that they deal with the propagation of faults through the plant. The modelling of fault propagation, its application to fault tree synthesis, a computer-based interactive facility and an illustrative example have been described in previous papers. This paper describes a similar, though not identical, method of modelling fault propagation for the purpose of hazard identification implemented on a computer-based interactive facility. The information produced is similar to that obtained from a hazard and operability study, though less complete. Consideration is also given to expert system enhancement of the method. An illustrative example is described in a further, complementary paper.