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dependent failure [2 records]

Record 1 1998-07-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
  • Engineering Tests and Reliability
  • Telecommunications Transmission
DEF

Failure of an item caused either directly or indirectly by the failure of another item.

OBS

secondary failure : term standardized by ISO.

Key term(s)
  • dependent failure

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
  • Fiabilité, contrôle et essais (Ingénierie)
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)
DEF

Défaillance dont la cause directe ou indirecte est la défaillance d'un autre dispositif.

OBS

défaillance seconde; défaillance dépendante: termes normalisés par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 2 1995-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engineering Tests and Reliability
DEF

The failure of a set of events, the probability of which cannot be expressed as the simple product of the unconditional probabilities of the individual events.

OBS

Draft International Standard 1508, IEC-TC 65, Functional Safety, 1995.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiabilité, contrôle et essais (Ingénierie)
OBS

Projet de norme internationale 1508, CEI-TC65, Sûreté fonctionnelle, 1995.

Spanish

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