Early integration of safety to the mechatronic system design process by the functional failure identification and propagation framework

S Sierla, I Tumer, N Papakonstantinou, K Koskinen… - Mechatronics, 2012‏ - Elsevier
The research goal of this paper is to introduce a risk analysis methodology that can be
applied at the early concept design phase, whose purpose is to identify fault propagation …

Integrated design-stage failure analysis of software-driven hardware systems

I Tumer, C Smidts - IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2010‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-driven hardware configurations account for the majority of modern safety-critical
complex systems. The often costly failures of such systems can be attributed to software …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies and Methods for the Fault-Tolerant Function Development of Multi-Domain Systems

R Stetter, U Pulm - Applied Sciences, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
The main focus of this paper is the exploration of fault accommodation possibilities in the
context of the function development of multi-domain systems. Faults inevitably occur in …

A Survey of Function Failure Identification and Propagation Analysis Methods for System Design

D Jensen, DL Van Bossuyt… - Journal of …, 2024‏ - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In the context of model-based product and system design, the capability to assess the impact
of potential component faults, undesired interactions, and fault propagation is important for …

Early prediction of reliability and availability of combined hardware-software systems based on functional failures

S Sinha, NK Goyal, R Mall - Journal of Systems Architecture, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Interactions among software and hardware components play an important role in successful
operation of a system. Researchers have identified two types of interaction failures: software …

fmdtools: A fault propagation toolkit for resilience assessment in early design

D Hulse, H Walsh, A Dong, C Hoyle… - … of Prognostics and …, 2021‏ - papers.phmsociety.org
Incorporating resilience in design is important for the long-term viability of complex
engineered systems. Complex aerospace systems, for example, must ensure safety in the …

Common cause failure analysis of cyber–physical systems situated in constructed environments

S Sierla, BM O'Halloran, T Karhela… - … in Engineering Design, 2013‏ - Springer
While cyber–physical system sciences are develo** methods for studying reliability that
span domains such as mechanics, electronics and control, there remains a lack of methods …

A graph theory approach to predicting functional failure propagation during conceptual systems design

BM O'Halloran, N Papakonstantinou… - Systems …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
An open area of research for complex, cyber‐physical systems is how to adequately support
decision making using reliability and failure data early in the systems engineering process …

An integrated multidomain functional failure and propagation analysis approach for safe system design

C Mutha, D Jensen, I Tumer, C Smidts - AI EDAM, 2013‏ - cambridge.org
Early system design analysis and fault removal is an important step in the iterative design
process to avoid costly repairs in the later stages of system development. System complexity …

Cognitive map-based system modeling for identifying interaction failure modes

M Augustine, OP Yadav, R Jain, A Rathore - Research in Engineering …, 2012‏ - Springer
Past few decades have seen an upsurge in failure analysis techniques capable of dealing
with reliability issues up front in the early stages of the product development process. Most of …