Fault Tree Diagrams and System Analysis

BlockSim allows system modeling using both Reliability Block Diagrams (RBDs) and Fault Trees. This chapter introduces basic fault tree analysis and points out the similarities (and differences) between RBDs and fault tree diagrams. Principles, methods and concepts discussed in previous chapters are used.

= Sections =
 * 1) Fault Tree and Reliability Block Diagrams
 * 2) Basic Gates
 * 3) New BlockSim Gates
 * 4) Additional Classical Gates and Their Equivalents in BlockSim
 * 5) Event Classifications
 * 6) Comparing Fault Trees and RBDs
 * 7) Using Mirrored Blocks to Represent Complex RBDs as FTDs
 * 8) Fault Trees and Simulation
 * 9) Additional Fault Tree Topics