Verification of fault tree analysis. Volume 2. Technical description
Description
An electronic instrument has been developed to simulate the reliability of complex safety systems. Using digital integrated circuits on modular printed circuit boards, together with a monitoring microcomputer system and other support hardware, it is possible to simulate systems composed of up to twenty independent components ten billion times faster than real-time. Arbitrary time-dependent hazard functions, complex repair mechanisms and procedures, and common mode interactions are incorporated into the system hardware. This instrument, termed ERMA (EPRI Reliability and Maintainability Analyzer), is described in detail in this report which contains the details of the electronic circuitry and supporting software. A companion, Volume 1, describes the theory and the results of experiments performed with ERMA
Availability note (English)
MF available from INIS under the Report Number; Available from NTIS., PC A08/MF A01.
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 167 p.
- Report number
- EPRI-NP--1570(Vol.2)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 12632831
- Subject category
- S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FAILURES; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PERFORMANCE TESTING; REACTOR PROTECTION SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; SAFETY ENGINEERING
- Descriptors DEC
- NUCLEAR FACILITIES; POWER PLANTS; SYSTEM FAILURE ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TESTING; THERMAL POWER PLANTS