標題: The application of Petri nets to failure analysis
作者: Liu, TS
Chiou, SB
機械工程學系
Department of Mechanical Engineering
公開日期: 1-Aug-1997
摘要: Unlike the technique of fault tree analysis that has been widely applied to system failure analysis in reliability engineering, this study presents a Petri net approach to failure analysis. It is essentially a graphical method for describing relations between conditions and events. The use of Petri nets in failure analysis enables to replace logic gate functions in fault trees, efficiently obtain minimal cut sets, and absorb models. It is demonstrated that for failure analysis Petri nets are more efficient than fault trees. In addition, this study devises an alternative; namely, a trapezoidal graph method in order to account for failure scenarios. Examples validate this novel method in dealing with failure analysis. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Limited.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0951-8320(97)00030-6
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/149596
ISSN: 0951-8320
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(97)00030-6
期刊: RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY
Volume: 57
起始頁: 129
結束頁: 142
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