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Analysis of Common Cause Failure Using Two-Step Expectation and Maximization Algorithm

2단계 EM 알고리즘을 이용한 공통원인 고장 분석

  • 백장현 (전북대학교 산업정보시스템공학과) ;
  • 서재영 (전북대학교 산업정보시스템공학과) ;
  • 나만균 (조선대학교 원자력공학과)
  • Published : 2005.06.01
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Abstract

In the field of nuclear reactor safety study, common cause failures (CCFs) became significant contributors to system failure probability and core damage frequency in most Probabilistic risk assessments. However, it is hard to estimate the reliability of such a system, because of the dependency of components caused by CCFs. In order to analyze the system, we propose an analytic method that can find the parameters with lack of raw data. This study adopts the shock model in which the failure probability increases as the shock is cumulated. We use two-step Expectation and Maximization (EM) algorithm to find the unknown parameters. In order to verify the analysis result, we perform the simulation under same environment. This approach might be helpful to build the defensive strategy for the CCFs.

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