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Fussell-Vesely importance: a standalone construct

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Reliability engineering

fraction of system failure probability coming from minimal cut sets that contain a given component.

In reliability engineering, Fussell-Vesely importance refers to fraction of system failure probability coming from minimal cut sets that contain a given component. This meaning comes from Fussell (1975) in IEEE Transactions on Reliability.[1]

Unit
Recovery means
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component3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs failure4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs minimal cut set1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Fussell, J. B. (1975). How to Hand-Calculate System Reliability and Safety Characteristics. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, R-24(3), 169-174. https://doi.org/10.1109/tr.1975.5215142

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