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Sensitivity Analysis with Fault Tree Analysis — FTA-SA

Sensitivity analysis integrated with fault tree analysis (FTA-SA) is a quantitative reliability engineering method that first models how system failure can occur through a hierarchical Boolean logic tree, then systematically varies the probability of each basic event to determine which components drive overall system failure risk most strongly. Widely used in nuclear, aerospace, chemical, and safety-critical system design, it prioritises mitigation effort and reveals which uncertainty in input data matters most.

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Sources

  1. Vesely, W. E., Goldberg, F. F., Roberts, N. H., & Haasl, D. F. (1981). Fault Tree Handbook. US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NUREG-0492. link
  2. Saltelli, A., Ratto, M., Andres, T., Campolongo, F., Cariboni, J., Gatelli, D., Saisana, M., & Tarantola, S. (2008). Global Sensitivity Analysis: The Primer. Wiley. ISBN: 978-0470059975

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