1. General considerations on fault trees
1.1 The basics of fault trees
The international standard defines the fault tree as follows CEI 61025 dedicated to him:
Fault tree: logical diagram showing sub-entity failures, external events or their combinations, causing a predefined undesired event.
The international electrotechnical vocabulary IEV 192 uses the term "fault tree" instead of "fault tree". The IEV 192 name is more appropriate, as "panne" is the translation of "fault", i.e. the state reached when a failure has occurred. In France, however, the term "arbre de défaillance" (fault tree) prevails, and we have chosen...
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module Tree: fault trees ;
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Petri module: stochastic Petri nets ;
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- - CEI 61078 -
- - CEI 60050-192 -
- - CEI 61703 -
- - ISO/TR 12489 -
- - CEI 61025 -
- - CEI 61165 -
- - CEI 62551 -
- - CEI 61508 -
- - CEI 61511 -
- - CEI 62740 -
- - CEI 62502 -
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