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ANALYSE ARBRE EVENEMENTS [1 record]

Record 1 2026-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engineering Tests and Reliability
  • Security
  • Nuclear Plant Safety
DEF

An inductive technique that starts by hypothesizing the occurence of basic postulated initiating events and proceeds through their logical propagation to system failure events.

CONT

An event tree analysis ... shows all possible outcomes resulting from an accidental (initiating) event, taking into account whether installed safety barriers are functioning or not ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiabilité, contrôle et essais (Ingénierie)
  • Sécurité
  • Sûreté des centrales nucléaires
DEF

Technique inductive qui part d'événements initiateurs postulés de base et [qui] décrit la propagation logique de leurs effets jusqu'à la défaillance d'un système.

CONT

Une analyse par arbre d'événements (AAE) prend en compte la réaction des systèmes de sécurité et des opérateurs à l'événement initiateur lors de l'évaluation des conséquences potentielles de l'accident.

Spanish

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