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As discussed before, fault tree analysis is a technique by which many events affecting a system which interact to provide other events, and ultimately system failure, can be related using simple logical relationships as part of a tree network structure. The logical relationships define the interaction of the events and allow the methodical construction of the fault tree structure. As noted, a fault tree usually starts with a top event, which is incurred as a result of the occurrence of primary events which in turn are caused by secondary, lower order, and command events. A simple example of an on-line redundant system is shown in Figure 11.1.
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Frankel, E.G. (1988). Application of Fault Tree and other Network Techniques. In: Systems Reliability and Risk Analysis. Engineering Applications of Systems Reliability and Risk Analysis, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2776-6_11
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