TY - GEN
T1 - Fault tree analysis and failure mode effects analysis based on multi-level flow modeling and causality estimation
AU - Gofuku, Akio
AU - Koide, Seiji
AU - Shimada, Norikazu
PY - 2006/12/1
Y1 - 2006/12/1
N2 - The fault tree analysis (FTA) and the failure mode effects analysis (FMEA) are widely applied to the safety evaluation of a system, especially in the development of large-scale and mission-critical system such as nuclear power plants, aircrafts, and space rockets. The principle of FTA and FMEA is to trace comprehensively cause-effect relations among anomaly causes and undesirable effects. Their results are summarized as trees and tables for the sake of tractability in safety evaluation. The Multi-level Flow Modeling (MFM) is a functional modeling technique. It models diagrammatically a system from the viewpoint of the means-end dimension. This paper proposes a technique to automatically generate FTA trees and FMEA table from causal relations among functions and sub-goals of a system that is expressed in the MFM model of the system with the additional ontology of device anomaly. The applicability and the effects of the technique have been confirmed through the development of a fuel injection system of a launcher for a middle-size space rocket.
AB - The fault tree analysis (FTA) and the failure mode effects analysis (FMEA) are widely applied to the safety evaluation of a system, especially in the development of large-scale and mission-critical system such as nuclear power plants, aircrafts, and space rockets. The principle of FTA and FMEA is to trace comprehensively cause-effect relations among anomaly causes and undesirable effects. Their results are summarized as trees and tables for the sake of tractability in safety evaluation. The Multi-level Flow Modeling (MFM) is a functional modeling technique. It models diagrammatically a system from the viewpoint of the means-end dimension. This paper proposes a technique to automatically generate FTA trees and FMEA table from causal relations among functions and sub-goals of a system that is expressed in the MFM model of the system with the additional ontology of device anomaly. The applicability and the effects of the technique have been confirmed through the development of a fuel injection system of a launcher for a middle-size space rocket.
KW - Failure mode effects analysis
KW - Fault tree analysis
KW - Launcher of space rocket
KW - Multi-level flow modeling
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U2 - 10.1109/SICE.2006.315478
DO - 10.1109/SICE.2006.315478
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34250720542
SN - 8995003855
SN - 9788995003855
T3 - 2006 SICE-ICASE International Joint Conference
SP - 497
EP - 500
BT - 2006 SICE-ICASE International Joint Conference
T2 - 2006 SICE-ICASE International Joint Conference
Y2 - 18 October 2006 through 21 October 2006
ER -