Fault Tree
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European Definitions
DIESIS project
The DIESIS project [1] gives the following definition:
Fault trees represent fault sequences of components in which each component is logically decomposed into sub-components (CXX). In a Fault Tree, leaves represent failures of sub-components (fault causes), and the logical nodes are the faults (consequences) of the components.
Other International Definitions
National Definitions
United States
Fault tree is a graphical tool used to illustrate the range, probability, and interaction of causal occurrences that lead to a final outcome. [2]
Standard Definition
=IETF
A branching, hierarchical data structure that is used to represent events and to determine the various combinations of component failures and human acts that could result in a specified undesirable system event. [3]
