Fault Tree Analysis 05
Fault Tree Analysis 05 : A deductive technique that starts by hypothesizing and defining failure events and systematically deduces the events or combinations of events that caused the failure events to occur. The fault tree is the diagrammatic illustration of the events. Event tree analysis considers similar chains of events, but starts at the other end (i.e. with the 'causes' rather than the 'results'). The completed event trees and fault trees for a given set of events would be similar to one another