An Area IF-Defuzzification Technique and Intuitionistic Fuzzy Reliability Assessment of Nuclear Basic Events of Fault Tree Analysis

Author(s):  
Mohit Kumar
2021 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 114122
Author(s):  
Weitao Yang ◽  
Boyang Du ◽  
Chaohui He ◽  
Luca Sterpone

Author(s):  
MARY ANN LUNDTEIGEN ◽  
MARVIN RAUSAND

This article presents a practical approach to reliability assessment of a complex safety instrumented system that is susceptible to common cause failures. The approach is based on fault tree analysis where the common cause failures are included by post-processing the minimal cut sets. The approach is illustrated by a case study of a safety instrumented function of a workover control system that is used during maintenance interventions into subsea oil and gas wells. The case study shows that the approach is well suited for identifying potential failures in complex systems and for including design engineers in the verification of the reliability analyses. Unlike many software tools for fault tree analysis, the approach gives conservative estimates for reliability. The suggested approach represents a useful extension to current reliability analysis methods.


2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 2753-2761
Author(s):  
Hui Zhou ◽  
Haiping Ren

In reliability field, the probabilities of basic events are often treated as exact values in conventional fault tree analysis. However, for many practical systems, because the concept of events may be ambiguous, the factors affecting the occurrence of events are complex and changeable, so it is difficult to obtain accurate values of the occurrence probability of events. Fuzzy sets can well deal with these situations. Thus this paper will develop a novel fault tree analysis method in the assumption of the values of probability of basic events expressed with triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. First, a new ranking function of triangular intuitionistic numbers is established, which can reflect the behavior factors of the decision maker. Then a novel fault tree analysis method is put forward on the basis of operational laws and the proposed ranking function of triangular intuitionistic numbers. Finally, an example of weapon system “automatic gun” is employed to show that the proposed fault tree analysis method is feasible and effective.


IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 980-996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sohag Kabir ◽  
Tan Kim Geok ◽  
Mohit Kumar ◽  
Mohammad Yazdi ◽  
Ferdous Hossain

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