Abstract
Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is one of the most developed techniques in reliability studies; however static analysis is not able to encompass the dynamic behavior of complex systems. To overcome this problem, Dynamic Fault Tree (DFT) analysis is suggested in recent researches. The main motivation of this study is a comparative study on differences between Static Fault Tree (SFT) and DFT models of a typical mechanical system (case study of a wind turbine). Also, this paper is aimed to interpretation of the results and sufficiency analysis of SFT to model this system. This study, first presents a SFT analysis for a wind turbine system. Then, DFT is developed for the system. Monte Carlo simulation based method is applied for its analysis. The comparison showed that the DFT method presents more useful and realistic model of a wind turbine system. The proposed method improved the analysis through modification of dynamic gates.
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