@article{ref1,
title="An illustrative example of fault tree synthesis based on control loop structure",
journal="Reliability engineering",
year="1984",
author="Shafaghi, A. and Lees, F.P. and Andow, P.K.",
volume="8",
number="4",
pages="193-233",
abstract="The construction of fault trees is normally a manual process, but there is growing interest in systematic, computer-based methods of fault tree synthesis. Usually the basis of these methods is that the plant is decomposed into a set of units, but this approach has the weakness that the resulting fault trees tend to have a structure which is rather opaque. A method of fault tree synthesis has been developed which is based on decomposing the plant into a set of control loops and which yields fault trees which do have a clear structure. The method is outlined and then illustrated by a substantial example. The application of the method to event tree synthesis is also briefly illustrated. Although the method in its present form is a manual one, it is considered to be applicable to computer-based synthesis and has been developed with this in view.<p />",
language="",
issn="0143-8174",
doi="10.1016/0143-8174(84)90007-6",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0143-8174(84)90007-6"
}