The public standards, reports and primary documents this topic draws on. Every factual claim in the preceding chapters traces to one of these; the worked example's numeric values are illustrative and belong to no source.
Standards and handbooks
- IEC 61078:2016, Reliability block diagrams, Edition 2.0, International Electrotechnical Commission, August 2016 (the RBD as a success-oriented model, its boolean evaluation, and the independence conditions under which the technique applies).
- MIL-STD-756B, Reliability Modeling and Prediction, US Department of Defense, 18 November 1981 (the reliability model as a programme deliverable; the basic-reliability and mission-reliability distinction).
- MIL-HDBK-338B, Electronic Reliability Design Handbook, US Department of Defense, 1 October 1998 (Section 6.4, reliability modelling: series, parallel, k-out-of-n and standby configurations).
- IEC 61025:2006, Fault tree analysis (FTA), Edition 2.0 (the failure-side dual of the same cut-set logic).
- IEC 61165:2006, Application of Markov techniques, Edition 2.0 (the technique to escalate to when repair, sequence or load sharing puts a system outside the boolean model).
- IEC 61508-6:2010, Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems, Part 6: Guidelines on the application of IEC 61508-2 and IEC 61508-3 (Annex D, the β-factor treatment of common-cause failure).
- IEC 60050-192:2015, International Electrotechnical Vocabulary, Part 192: Dependability (the vocabulary the terms on these pages are used in).
Primary reports and documents
- NUREG-0492, Fault Tree Handbook, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, January 1981 (minimal cut sets and minimal path sets, their duality, and the rare-event approximation).
Literature
- J. D. Esary and F. Proschan, "Coherent structures of non-identical components", Technometrics, volume 5 number 2, May 1963, pages 191 to 209 (the minimal-path and minimal-cut bounds used in the foundations chapter).
- Z. W. Birnbaum, "On the importance of different components in a multicomponent system", in P. R. Krishnaiah (ed.), Multivariate Analysis II, Academic Press, 1969, pages 581 to 592 (the importance measure, and the criticality form derived from it).
For the block failure rates a diagram consumes and the models that produce them, see the Reliability Prediction references; for the mission budget a diagram is judged against, the Reliability Allocation references.