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\title{Abstract for Phd Thesis: Failure Mode Modular De-Composition}
\author{R. P. Clark}

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\begin{abstract}


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The certification process of safety critical products for European and other international 
standards typically demand environmental stress, endurance and electro magnetic compatibility testing. 
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Theoretical, or `static~testing' also a requirement. 
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Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a tool used for static testing.
FMEA is a bottom-up technique that aims to assess the effects 
of all component failure modes in a system.
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Its use is traditionally limited to hardware systems. % only. 
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With the growing complexity of modern electronics traditional FMEA
is suffering from state explosion and re-use of analysis problems.
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Also with the now ubiquitous use of micro-controllers in smart~instruments and control systems, 
software is increasingly being seen as a `missing~factor' for FMEA. % analysis.


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This thesis presents a new modular variant of FMEA, Failure Mode Modular Decomposition (FMMD).
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FMMD has been designed to integrate mechanical/electronic and software 
failure models, by treating them all as components  in terms of their failure modes. 
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For instance, software functions, 
electronic and mechanical components
can all be assigned sets of failure modes.
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FMMD builds failure mode models from the bottom-up by incrementally analysing
{\fgs} of components, using the results of analysis to create higher level {\dcs},
which in turn can be used to build {\fgs}.
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In this way a hierarchical failure mode model 
is built. 
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Software functions are treated as components by FMMD and can thus be incorporated seamlessly into
the failure mode hierarchical model.
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A selection of examples, electronic circuits and hardware/software hybrids are analysed using 
this new methodology.
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The results of these analyses are then discussed from the perspective of safety critical application.
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Performance in terms of test efficiency is greatly improved by FMMD and 
the examples analysed and theoretical models are used to demonstrate this.
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%and FMMD is compared with traditional HFMEA and SFMEA.
This thesis presents a methodology that solves the state explosion problems of FMEA;
provides integrated hardware and software failure mode models;
facilitates multiple failure mode analysis;
encourages re-use of analysis work
and can be used to produce traditional format FMEA reports.
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