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FAILURE-TREE ANALYSIS [1 record]

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Record 1 2010-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engineering Tests and Reliability
  • Quality Control (Management)
DEF

A process by which, using the higher level failure as the starting point, the various lower level faults that could have caused the failure are evaluated.

OBS

Fault tree analysis is the reverse of “failure modes and effects analysis.”

OBS

fault tree analysis; FTA: term, abbreviation and definition officially approved by the Defence Terminology Standardization Board.

Key term(s)
  • fault-tree analysis
  • root cause analysis
  • failure-tree analysis

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiabilité, contrôle et essais (Ingénierie)
  • Contrôle de la qualité (Gestion)
DEF

Processus par lequel on prend comme point de départ la défaillance d’un élément d'ordre supérieur pour ensuite évaluer les diverses causes possibles au niveau inférieur.

CONT

L'analyse par arbre des causes est une méthode utilisée dans l'analyse des accidents : on recherche rétrospectivement quelles étaient les causes possibles de l'accident et l'on détermine, quand c'est possible, la cause véritable.

OBS

L’analyse par arbre de défaillances procède à l'inverse de l’ «analyse des modes de défaillances et de leurs effets».

OBS

analyse par arbre de défaillances; FTA : terme, abréviation et définition uniformisés par le Conseil de normalisation de terminologie de la Défense.

Spanish

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