Citation

Alesso HP, Prassinos P, Smith CF. Reliab. Eng. 1985; 12(2): 79-92.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1985, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0143-8174(85)90086-1

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Fault graphs are the natural evolutionary step over a traditional fault-tree model. A fault graph is a failure-oriented directed graph with logic connectives that allows cycles. We intentionally construct the fault graph to trace the piping and instrumentation drawing (P& ID) of the system, but with logical AND and OR conditions added. Then we evaluate the fault graph with computer codes based on graph--theoretical methods.