diff --git a/submission_thesis/CH8_Conclusion/copy.tex b/submission_thesis/CH8_Conclusion/copy.tex index cd18629..f9f1de1 100644 --- a/submission_thesis/CH8_Conclusion/copy.tex +++ b/submission_thesis/CH8_Conclusion/copy.tex @@ -224,7 +224,10 @@ failure. With an FMMD model, all the causes of system failures down can be traced to the base component level. % -This would be enough to create a fault causation tree, but FTA introduces +The DAG produced from an FMMD analysis could be considered %%% THANKS ANDREW ! +as a unification of all FTA trees of a system. +% +This would in fact, be enough to create all fault causation trees, but FTA introduces concepts of operational and environmental states, and inhibit gates. % The FMEA philosophy in relation to these three concepts are to assume that they are worst cases, that they diff --git a/submission_thesis/appendixes/algorithmic.tex b/submission_thesis/appendixes/algorithmic.tex index 9811c66..536ecf4 100644 --- a/submission_thesis/appendixes/algorithmic.tex +++ b/submission_thesis/appendixes/algorithmic.tex @@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ components, where $\abslev$ is a natural number, ($\abslev \in \mathbb{N}_0$). % For a base component, let the abstraction level be zero. % -The symptom abstraction process is applied giving a $\derivec$, +The symptom abstraction process is applied giving a $\dc$, this derived~component will have an $\abslev$ value one higher than the highest $\abslev$ value of any of the components in the {\fg} used to derive it.