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Common-cause failure analysis in event assessment

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: This paper reviews the basic concepts of modelling common-cause failures (CCFs) in reliability and risk studies and then applies these concepts to the treatment of CCF in event assessment. The cases of a failed component (with and without shared CCF potential) and a component being unavailable due to preventive maintenance or testing are addressed. The treatment of two related failure modes (e.g. failure to start and failure to run) is a new feature of this paper, as is the treatment of asymmetry within a common-cause component group.

Source: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O Journal of Risk and Reliability

DOI: 10.1243/1748006xjrr121

Authors: D M Rasmuson, D L Kelly

Institutions: United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Idaho National Laboratory

Language: English

Topic: Risk and Safety Analysis

Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2168829397

FWCI: 1.511

Cites: 2

Cited by: 20

Related to: 10