Sydvest offers user focused, R&D based tools for
analysis and management of safety and reliability

| Home | About | Contact us | Products | Support| Services | Downloads | Search | Links |


[products]

[CARA-
FaultTree]

[product information]

[userlist]

[technical
information]

[light edition spec]

[demo]

[tutorial]

[FAQ]

[bug reporting]

[suggestions]

 

CARA-FaultTree TECHNICAL INFORMATION

 

line.gif (818 bytes)

CONTENTS

:Performance Measures calculated by CARA-FaultTree

:System Requirements

:Import and Export Capabilities

 

line.gif (818 bytes)

cftinput.gif (13616 bytes)

 

PERFORMANCE MEASURES CALCULATED BY CARA-FaultTree

:Back to top

  • Minimal cut-sets
  • Six system performance measures
    - Unavailability
    - Average availability
    - Survival probability
    - Mean time to failure (MTTF)
    - Frequency of TOP event
    - Failure frequency distribution
  • Six measures of component importance
    - Birnbaum's reliability
    - Birnbaum's structural
    - Vesely Fussell
    - Criticality importance
    - Improvement potential
    - Order of smallest cut-set
  • Importance measures at cut-set level
  • Unavailability at cut-set level
  • Uncertainty analysis

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

:Back to top

  • Windows 9x/NT or Windows 2000
  • 486DX66 minimum, pentium recommended
  • 12 Mb RAM minimum
  • 10 Mb free disk space
  • Comes on CD or disks

IMPORT AND EXPORT CAPABILITIES

:Back to top

  • Import and export of data via formatted text files
  • Analysis reports exported as RTF-files (Rich Text Format)
  • Fault tree graphics exported via the clip board (Windows Metafile)
  • Graphical analysis results exported via the Windows clip board (Bitmap Format)
  • Import of fault tree files from previous versions (CARA-CAFTAN version 3)

Sydvest, Trondheim, Norway
E-mail: post@sydvest.com
Contact details: see "Contact us"
Last modified: 14.10.2005 by jrv