Three trees, three distinct approaches
Fault, cause and event trees
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Three trees, three distinct approaches
Fault, cause and event trees

Author : Yves MORTUREUX

Publication date: October 10, 2002 | Lire en français

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1. Three trees, three distinct approaches

1.1 Principles and objectives of these methods

  • The fault tree is a method which starts with a final event and works backwards to the causes and conditions whose combinations can produce it. It aims to represent all the combinations that can lead to the event under study, hence the schematic representation given as an example in figure 1 a.

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