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User's manual for MOCUS-BACKFIRE [i.e. MOCUS-BACFIRE] : a computer program for common cause failure analysis

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User's manual for MOCUS-BACKFIRE [i.e. MOCUS-BACFIRE] : a computer program for common cause failure analysis

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Alternative Title: MOCUS-BACFIRE user's manual.
Author: Heising, Carolyn D.
Other Contributors: Boston Edison Company.
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Publisher: [Cambridge, Mass.] : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Energy Laboratory, [1981]
Date Issued: 1981
Abstract:
This report is the user's manual for MOCUS-BACFIRE, a computer programme for qualitative common cause analysis. The MOCUSBACFIRE package code was developed by coupling the MOCUS code and BACFIRE code. The MOCUS code is a computer programme to generate cut sets of a fault tree. BACFIRE is a computer programme to search among the basic events of a minimal cut set for potential common casuse failures. Both codes are written in FORTRAN IV for the IBM 360/370 computer series. The input data to MOCUS-BACFIRE are the fault tree and common cause susceptibilities. The input and output of the programme are described in detail in this handbook.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60554
Series/Report no.: Energy Laboratory report (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Energy Laboratory) no. MIT-EL 81-034.
Keywords: Reliability (Engineering), Trees (Graph theory)

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