FTA^e – Fault Tree Analysis in Microsoft Excel

Abstract:

FTA^e is software tool for Fault Tree Analysis in Microsoft Excel. This paper is focused on short description of created FTA^e. A brief description of Fault Tree Analysis is in the first part of paper. The Structure, Logic and Minimal Cut Sets in Fault Tree analysis is described too. Next part of this paper is focused on the choice of algorithm for cut set calculation and brief description of structure of FTA^e. Finally, advantages of FTA^e software in Microsoft Excel are described in conclusions.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 889-890)
• Pages: 591-594
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.889-890.591
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Richard Kuracina*, Denis Šandor, Karol Balog
• Keywords: Algorithm (GA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Microsoft Excel, Risk Analysis

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