Is a collection of basic events that lead to top-level events. In other words, the occurrence of a set of basic events in the fault tree can cause the occurrence of the top event, which is called cut set. The minimum set of basic events that cause top events is called the minimum cut set.

Hmm. How interesting

On point cut sets

/lssx/chp 5/cont 5 _ 2 _ 2c/cont 5 _ 2 _ 2c . htm

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