Fault tree analysis for nuclear power plant probabilistic safety assessment is an intricate process. Personal computer-based software systems have therefore been developed to conduct this analysis. However, all existing fault tree analysis software systems only accept quantitative data to characterized basic event reliabilities. In real-world applications, basic event reliabilities may not be r...

This paper presents a methodology for analysing Air Traffic Incidents based on an estimate of the probability of an Air Traffic Incident developing into an Air Traffic Accident (Air Traffic Incidents are officially defined as events which are dangerous but without a catastrophic impact). A new approach is presented as previous research in this area has focused more on defining accident occurren...

background and aim: foundations and mechanisms of auditory scene analysis (asa) including segregation and integration were especially reviewed in the study. i focused on the related studies using event-related potentials (erps). recent findings: publications on asa using erps from 1971 to 2014 indicate neural mechanisms of asa in central auditory system. conclusion: asa results in recognition o...

The paper presents a reliability assessment of a widely used protection system of large power squirrel cage induction motors. In conjunction with published field induction motors Failure data this assessment effort is based on a integrated predictive analysis using three methods: (1) a Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) that allows to identify and then quantify the initiating failure cause weighting fac...

In this study, the application of Bayes networks and fault tree analysis in reliability estimation have been investigated. Fault tree analysis is one of the most widely used methods for estimating reliability. In recent years, a method called "Bayes Network" has been used, which is a dynamic method, and information about the probable failure of the system components will be updated according to...

This paper presents advanced features of a fault tree solver FTREX (Fault Tree Reliability Evaluation eXpert). Fault tree analysis is one of the most commonly used methods for the safety analysis of industrial systems especially for the probabilistic safety analysis (PSA) of nuclear power plants. Fault trees are solved by the classical Boolean algebra[1,2], conventional Binary Decision Diagram ...