Example Analyzing an Emergency Electric Power System

4 Example Analyzing an Emergency Electric Power System 

FTAP - Give it a fault tree or equivalent as linked Boolean equations, and it will find the cutsets (Section 2.2), but it does not numerically evaluate the probabilities. 

PREPROCESSOR - Modifies the FTAP punch file output for common cause and dependent analyses (conditional probabilities), removes complemented events, and corrects for mutually exclusive events. 

BUILD - Accepts a file from FTAP or PREPROCESSOR to calculate the quantitative results. 

IMPORTANCE - Accepts the output from BUILD and calculates importance measures (Section 2.8) and provides input for the uncertainty analysis. 

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