diff --git a/component_failure_modes_definition/component_failure_modes_definition.tex b/component_failure_modes_definition/component_failure_modes_definition.tex index cbb2c12..0820baf 100644 --- a/component_failure_modes_definition/component_failure_modes_definition.tex +++ b/component_failure_modes_definition/component_failure_modes_definition.tex @@ -249,9 +249,9 @@ take a given component $C$ and return its set of failure modes $F$. $$ FM : C \mapsto F $$ \begin{definition} -We can define a set $U$ which is a set of sets of failure modes, where +We can define a set $\mathcal{U}$ which is a set of sets of failure modes, where the component failure modes in each of its members are unitary~state. -Thus if the failure modes of $F$ are unitary~state, we can say $F \in U$. +Thus if the failure modes of $F$ are unitary~state, we can say $F \in \mathcal{U}$. \end{definition} \section{Component failure modes:\\ Unitary State example} @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ Thus because both fault modes cannot be active at the same time, the intersectio $$ R_{SHORTED} \cap R_{OPEN} = \emptyset $$ therefore -$$ FM(R) \in U $$ +$$ FM(R) \in \mathcal{U} $$ We can make this a general case by taking a set $F$ (where $f_1, f_2 \in F$) representing a collection @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ We can say that if any pair of fault modes is active at the same time, then the unitary state: we state this formally \begin{equation} - \forall f_1,f_2 \in F \dot ( f_1 \neq f_2 \wedge \mathcal{ACTIVE}({f_1}) \wedge \mathcal{ACTIVE}({f_2}) ) \implies F \not\in U + \forall f_1,f_2 \in F \dot ( f_1 \neq f_2 \wedge \mathcal{ACTIVE}({f_1}) \wedge \mathcal{ACTIVE}({f_2}) ) \implies F \not\in \mathcal{U} \end{equation} @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ we state this formally % \end{equation} That is to say that it is impossible that any pair of failure modes can be active at the same time -for the failure mode set $F$ to exist in the family of sets $U$. +for the failure mode set $F$ to exist in the family of sets $\mathcal{U}$. Note where that are more than two failure~modes, by banning any pairs from being active at the same time we have banned larger combinations as well. @@ -382,8 +382,8 @@ for each component in the functional group under analysis. For example: were we to have a simple functional group with two components R and T, of which $$FM(R) = \{R_o, R_s\}$$ and $$FM(T) = \{T_o, T_s, T_h\}$$. -This means that a functional~group $FG=\{R,T\}$ will have a component failure modes set % $FM_{cfg} $ -of $FM_{cfg} = \{R_o, R_s, T_o, T_s, T_h\}$ +This means that a functional~group $FG=\{R,T\}$ will have a component failure modes set +of $FG_{cfg} = \{R_o, R_s, T_o, T_s, T_h\}$ For a cardinality constrained powerset of 2, because there are 5 error modes ( $|{FG_{cfg}}|=5$), applying equation \ref{eqn:ccps} gives :- @@ -432,9 +432,12 @@ where : that are members of the functional group $FG$ i.e. $ \forall j \in J | C_j \in FG $ \item Let $|{C}_{j}|$ -indicate the number of mutually exclusive fault modes each component has -\item Let $SU$ be a set of unitary state failure modes from the functional group -nder analysis $SU = FM(FG)$ +indicate the number of mutually exclusive fault modes of each component +\item Let $FG_{cfg}$ be the collection of all failure modes +from all the components in the functional group. +\item Let $SU$ be a set of failure modes from the functional group, +where all contributing components $C_j$ +are guaranteed to be `unitary state' i.e. $(SU = FG_{cfg}) \wedge (\forall j \in J | C_j \in \mathcal{U}) $ \end{itemize} %}