SAFETY OF AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY
An airplane is a highly engineered system incorporating control- and feedback-loops which often, and realistically, are non-linear because the equations describing such feedback contain products of state variables, trigonometric or squareroot functions, or other types of non-linear terms. This report describes the application of Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA), also know as Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA), to highly engineered systems, such as aircraft. PSA encompasses a wide variety of methods, including event tree analysis (ETA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and common cause analysis, among others.
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Corporate Authors:
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Associated Universities, Incorporated
Upton, NY United States 11973Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC United States 20585 -
Authors:
- Martinez-Guridi, G
- Hall, R E
- Fullwood, R R
- Publication Date: 1997-5-14
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 45 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Aviation safety; Fault tree analysis; Feedback control; Probability; Risk assessment; Safety factors
- Uncontrolled Terms: Aircraft safety; Feedback; Probabilistic analysis
- Subject Areas: Aviation; Data and Information Technology; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00751192
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: BNL-64946
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jul 26 1998 12:00AM