Apollo 13 Risk Assessment Revisited
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.55630/sjc.2007.1.87-100Keywords:
Fault Tree, Risk Assessment, Prime Event, Conjunction, DisjunctionAbstract
Fault tree methodology is the most widespread risk assessment tool by which one is able to predict - in principle - the outcome of an event whenever it is reduced to simpler ones by the logic operations conjunction and disjunction according to the basics of Boolean algebra. The object of this work is to present an algorithm by which, using the corresponding computer code, one is able to predict - in practice - the outcome of an event whenever its fault tree is given in the usual form.References
Henley E. J., H. Kukamoto. Reliability Engineering and Risk Assessment. Prentice Hall, 1981.
ttp://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/ap13acc.html
and for the details: http://drushel.cwru.edu/apollo13/appF-pt4.pdf.
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Boolean_satisfiability_problem.
Mézard M., G. Parisi, R. Zecchina Science 297, Issue 5582 (2002), 812–815.
Whitesitt J. E. Boolean Algebra and Its Applications. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, USA, 1961
