Textbook 1: Reliability of Safety-Critical Systems

Author: Marvin Rausand

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For this course we have developed learning materials in terms of exercises and “semester work”

Table of contents

1 Introduction

2 Concepts and Requirements

3 Failures and Failure Analysis

4 Testing and Maintenance

5 Reliability Quantification

5.2 Reliability Block Diagrams

 5.3 Fault Tree Analysis

 5.4 The Beta-Factor Model

 5.5 Markov Approach

6 Reliability Data Sources

7 Demand Modes and Performance Measures

8 Average Probability of Failure on Demand

 8.1 Introduction

 8.2 Reliability Block Diagrams

 8.3 Simplified Formulas

 8.4 The IEC 61508 Formulas

 8.5 The PDS Method

 8.6 Fault Tree Approach

 8.7 Markov Approach

9 Average Frequency of Dangerous Failures

 9.1 Introduction

 9.2 Frequency of Failures

 9.3 Average Frequency of Dangerous Failures (PFH)

 9.4 Simplified PFH Formulas

 9.5 The IEC 61508 Formulas

 9.6 Alternative IEC Formulas

 9.7 The PDS Method

10 Common-Cause Failures

 10.1 Introduction

 10.2 Causes of CCF

 10.3 Defenses Against CCF

 10.4 Explicit Versus Implicit Modeling

 10.5 The Beta-Factor Model

 10.6 The Binomial Failure Rate Model

11 Imperfect Proof-Testing

12 Spurious Activation

13 Uncertainty Assessment