diff --git a/submission_thesis/CH7_Evaluation/copy.tex b/submission_thesis/CH7_Evaluation/copy.tex index 0cf7ae2..8e04121 100644 --- a/submission_thesis/CH7_Evaluation/copy.tex +++ b/submission_thesis/CH7_Evaluation/copy.tex @@ -1193,7 +1193,10 @@ This would make it seemingly impossible to model as `unitary state'. There are two ways in which we can deal with this. We could consider the component a composite of two simpler components, and model their interaction to -create a derived component. +create a derived component (i.e. use FMMD on the simpler components). +The second way to do this would be to consider the combnations of non-mutually +exclusive {\fms} as new {\fms}: this approach is discussed below. + \ifthenelse {\boolean{paper}} { This technique is outside the scope of this paper. @@ -1211,8 +1214,8 @@ This technique is outside the scope of this paper. \end{figure} \paragraph{Combinations become new failure modes.} -Alternatively, we could consider the combinations -of the failure modes as new failure modes. +We could consider the combinations +of the non-mutually exclusive failure modes as new failure modes. We can model this using an Euler diagram representation of an example component with three failure modes\footnote{OK is really the empty set, but the term OK is more meaningful in the context of component failure modes} $\{ B_1, B_2, B_3, OK \}$ see figure \ref{fig:combco}.