A Functional Failure Analysis Method of Identifying and Mitigating Spurious System Emissions From a System of Interest in a System of Systems
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Authors
Van Bossuyt, Douglas L.
Arlitt., Ryan M., Douglas L.
Subjects
model-based systems engineering
system of systems
failure analysis
functional model
system of systems
failure analysis
functional model
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Date of Issue
2020
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2020
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ASME
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Abstract
Increasingly tight coupling and heavy connectedness in system of systems (SoS) present new problems for systems’ designers and engineers. While the failure of one system within a loosely coupled SoS may produce little collateral damage beyond a loss in SoS capability, a highly interconnected SoS can experience sig- nificant damage when one member system fails in an unanticipated way. It is therefore important to develop systems that are “good neighbors” with the other systems in an SoS by failing in ways that do not further degrade an SoS’s ability to complete its mission. This paper presents a method to (1) analyze a system of interest (SoI) for potentially harmful spurious system emissions (failure flows that exit the SoI’s system boundary and may cause failure initiating events in other systems within the SoS) and (2) choose mitigation strategies that provide the best return on invest- ment for the SoS. The method is intended for use during the system architecture phase of the system design process when functional architectures are being developed, and analysis of alternatives and trade-off studies are being conducted.
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Article
Description
The article of record as published may be found at https://10.1115/1.4046991
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Systems Engineering (SE)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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This research is partially supported by the Naval Postgraduate School and the Technical University of Denmark.
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8 p.
Citation
Van Bossuyt, Douglas L., and Ryan M. Arlitt. "A Functional Failure Analysis Method of Identifying and Mitigating Spurious System Emissions From a System of Interest in a System of Systems." Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering 20.5 (2020).
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.