| Article ID: | iaor20022255 |
| Country: | China |
| Volume: | 20 |
| Issue: | 12 |
| Start Page Number: | 102 |
| End Page Number: | 107 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2000 |
| Journal: | Systems Engineering Theory & Practice |
| Authors: | Wang Yongchuan, Yu Wenxian, Zhuang Zhaowen |
In this paper, based on conventional fault tree analysis (FTA), we present a new FTA method where each component's failure rate is considered as fuzzy number after introducing extension principle in fuzzy mathematics. Finally, an example is given.