Nikolaos Limnios 
Fault Trees 

Fault tree analysis is an important technique in determining the
safety and dependability of complex systems. Fault trees are used
as a major tool in the study of system safety as well as in
reliability and availability studies.

The basic methods – construction, logical analysis,
probability evaluation and influence study – are described in
this book. The following extensions of fault trees, non-coherent
fault trees, fault trees with delay and multi-performance fault
trees, are also explained. Traditional algorithms for fault tree
analysis are presented, as well as more recent algorithms based on
binary decision diagrams (BDD).

Table of Content

Introduction.

Chapter 1. Single-component systems.

Chapter 2. Multi-component systems.

Chapter 3. Construction of fault trees.

Chapter 4. Minimal sets.

Chapter 5. Probabilistic assessment.

Chapter 6. Influence assessment.

Chapter 7. Modules – phases – common modes.

Chapter 8. Extensions: non-coherent, delay and multistate fault trees.

Chapter 9. Binary decision diagrams.

Chapter 10. Stochastic simulation of fault trees.

Appendices: A. BDD algorithms for fault trees; B. Fault trees of European benchmark; C. Probability results.

Main Notations.

Bibliography.

Index.

About the author

Nikolaos Limnios is a Professor at the University of Technology, Compiègne, France. His research includes reliability, applied stochastic processes and statistics. He has written and edited many books in the reliability field.