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Utilizing Failure Information For Mission Assessment And Optimization For Complex Systems, Charlie Destefano
Utilizing Failure Information For Mission Assessment And Optimization For Complex Systems, Charlie Destefano
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This paper presents a new failure analysis method, Failure Identification for Mission Analysis (FIMA), which performs a general failure analysis for the overall state of a system, as well as a mission-specific analysis that identifies how failures may have differing effects on the various mission tasks that a system must complete. The FIMA method is capable of being implemented at any point in the design process. During early design stages, the FIMA method will identify various qualitative failure scenarios based on programmed functional relationships and any number of initial failures wished to be simulated. The functional relationships for this method …