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Fault Tree

Analysis
(FTA)
Comprehensive overview
• Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is a
systematic, deductive method
What is Fault used to identify potential
causes of system failures. It
Tree Analysis? employs a tree-like structure
to represent events leading to
a failure.
Uses of FTA

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Assess the Enhance the Pinpoint the Highlight the Conduct root Implement Perform risk Analyze
reliability of reliability and weakest strengths cause redundancies analysis for safety
a system. performance components and robust analysis to and establish complex requirements
of a system. within a features of a address spare systems. for
system. system. failures or management infrastructur
inefficiencies. systems. e critical to
national
security.
Structure of a Fault Tree

Top Event (TE): Represents the complete system failure being analyzed; symbolized by a rectangle with no output leads.

Intermediate Event (IE): Events between basic events and the TE, caused by combinations of basic events; symbolized by
rectangles with input and output leads.

Basic Event (BE): Root causes with no dependencies, symbolized by circles.

Transfer Event: Represents continuation across different sheets, symbolized by triangles.

Underdeveloped Event: Events with insufficient information but not basic events, symbolized by diamonds or rhombuses.
Logic Gates in FTA

AND GATE: THE TOP EVENT OR GATE: THE TOP EVENT OCCURS THESE GATES HELP IN VISUALIZING
OCCURS IF ALL INPUT EVENTS IF AT LEAST ONE INPUT EVENT HOW COMBINATIONS OF EVENTS
OCCUR. OCCURS. LEAD TO FAILURES.
Aspect Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) Event Tree Analysis (ETA)
Purpose Identifies causes of a specific system failure (Top Event). Analyzes the outcomes of an initiating event.

Approach Deductive (top-down approach). Inductive (bottom-up approach).

Focuses on determining potential consequences or


Focus Focuses on identifying root causes of failure. outcomes.

Representation Represented as a tree with the Top Event at the top. Represented as a tree starting with the Initiating Event.

Events Analyzed Explores failure paths leading to the Top Event. Explores success and failure paths following an event.

Uses rectangles (TE/IE), circles (BE), triangles (transfer), and


Key Symbols diamonds (underdeveloped). Uses branches to represent outcomes of decision points.

Primary Output Identifies failure modes and contributing causes. Maps all possible outcomes and probabilities from an event.

Application Used in failure analysis and risk mitigation. Used in reliability assessment and consequence analysis.

Risk Quantification Provides probabilities for the Top Event based on input failures. Assigns probabilities to different outcomes of the event.

Commonly used in safety-critical systems (e.g., aerospace,


Use in Systems nuclear). Commonly used in risk assessment for process industries.
• Fault Tree Analysis is
an invaluable tool for
identifying and
analyzing system
failures. By
understanding failure
Conclusion pathways,
organizations can
enhance safety,
reliability, and
efficiency.

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