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Title: Use of Fault Tree Analysis for Automotive Reliability and Safety Analysis

Abstract

Fault tree analysis (FTA) evolved from the aerospace industry in the 1960's. A fault tree is deductive logic model that is generated with a top undesired event in mind. FTA answers the question, ''how can something occur?'' as opposed to failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) that is inductive and answers the question, ''what if?'' FTA is used in risk, reliability and safety assessments. FTA is currently being used by several industries such as nuclear power and chemical processing. Typically the automotive industries uses failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) such as design FMEAs and process FMEAs. The use of FTA has spread to the automotive industry. This paper discusses the use of FTA for automotive applications. With the addition automotive electronics for various applications in systems such as engine/power control, cruise control and braking/traction, FTA is well suited to address failure modes within these systems. FTA can determine the importance of these failure modes from various perspectives such as cost, reliability and safety. A fault tree analysis of a car starting system is presented as an example.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
US Department of Energy (US)
OSTI Identifier:
15006932
Report Number(s):
UCRL-JC-154905
Journal ID: ISSN 0148-7191; TRN: US200412%%435
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-48
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Journal Volume: 1; Conference: 2004 SAE Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress, Detroit, MI (US), 03/08/2004--03/11/2004; Other Information: PBD: 24 Sep 2003
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; 42 ENGINEERING; AEROSPACE INDUSTRY; AUTOMOBILES; AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; DESIGN; ENGINEERS; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR POWER; PROCESSING; RELIABILITY; SAFETY; SAFETY ANALYSIS

Citation Formats

Lambert, H. Use of Fault Tree Analysis for Automotive Reliability and Safety Analysis. United States: N. p., 2003. Web. doi:10.4271/2004-01-1537.
Lambert, H. Use of Fault Tree Analysis for Automotive Reliability and Safety Analysis. United States. https://doi.org/10.4271/2004-01-1537
Lambert, H. 2003. "Use of Fault Tree Analysis for Automotive Reliability and Safety Analysis". United States. https://doi.org/10.4271/2004-01-1537. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/15006932.
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abstractNote = {Fault tree analysis (FTA) evolved from the aerospace industry in the 1960's. A fault tree is deductive logic model that is generated with a top undesired event in mind. FTA answers the question, ''how can something occur?'' as opposed to failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) that is inductive and answers the question, ''what if?'' FTA is used in risk, reliability and safety assessments. FTA is currently being used by several industries such as nuclear power and chemical processing. Typically the automotive industries uses failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) such as design FMEAs and process FMEAs. The use of FTA has spread to the automotive industry. This paper discusses the use of FTA for automotive applications. With the addition automotive electronics for various applications in systems such as engine/power control, cruise control and braking/traction, FTA is well suited to address failure modes within these systems. FTA can determine the importance of these failure modes from various perspectives such as cost, reliability and safety. A fault tree analysis of a car starting system is presented as an example.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Sep 24 00:00:00 EDT 2003},
month = {Wed Sep 24 00:00:00 EDT 2003}
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