Reliability assessment of cyber-physical distribution network based on the fault tree

2020 ◽  
Vol 155 ◽  
pp. 1411-1424
Author(s):  
Xu Sun ◽  
Yanli Liu ◽  
Liangchen Deng
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.


2019 ◽  
Vol 158 ◽  
pp. 2915-2921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanli Liu ◽  
Liangchen Deng ◽  
Ning Gao ◽  
Xu Sun

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