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.

• Corporate Authors:

  Brookhaven National Laboratory

  Associated Universities, Incorporated
  Upton, NY  United States  11973

  Department 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