RSICC CODE PACKAGE PSR-584

1.         NAME AND TITLE

KCUT - Code to Generate Minimal Cut Sets for Fault Trees.

2.         CONTRIBUTORS

Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea through the Nuclear Energy Agency Data Bank, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.

3.         CODING LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER

Microsoft Visual C 2.0; PC Windows (P00584IBMPC00).

4.         NATURE OF PROBLEM SOLVED

KCUT is software to generate minimal cut sets for fault trees.

5.         METHOD OF SOLUTION

KCUT expands a fault tree into cut sets and deletes non minimal cut sets.  KCUT takes Boolean equations as input so that a fault tree should be converted into Boolean form.

6.         RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS

Size and complexity of the fault tree.

7.         TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

      Depends on the complexity of the fault tree model. Most of the standard KCUT examples take from a few seconds to an hour.

8.         COMPUTER HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

IBM PC.

9.         COMPUTER SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

PC Windows NT and XP.

10.       REFERENCES

            Included Documentation:

“KCUT Manual - Version 4.8”, Integrated Risk Assessment Center, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (July  2006).

11.       CONTENTS OF CODE PACKAGE

The package is transmitted on one CD with the documentation, source code, precompiled executable, and input/output files.

12.       DATE OF ABSTRACT

May  2013.

 

KEYWORDS:     FAULT TREE ANALYSIS, PROBABILITY SAFETY ANALYSIS, SYSTEM FAILRURE ANALYSIS