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faulttree·NUREG-0492 / IEC 61025·engineering, energy·complexity 1/3·since v0.6.5

Redundant pump failure (AND gate)

The smallest quantified fault tree — two redundant pumps in an AND gate, so the system fails only if both fail. One minimal cut set, no single point of failure, with a computed top-event probability.

For the reliability engineer sizing redundancy

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Both pumps fail Fault tree for "Both redundant pumps fail": 1 top, 2 basic. 1 minimal cut set: {PA, PB}. P(top) = 1.00e-4 (rare). Both pumps fail Both redundant pumpsfail PA Pump A fails p=0.01 PB Pump B fails p=0.01 P(top) = 1.00e-4 (rare)
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What this shows

The canonical reliability argument for redundancy. The top event occurs only when both pumps fail, so the gate is an AND (drawn as the flat-bottomed dome). The engine computes the one minimal cut set {PA, PB} (order 2, boxed in red) and — because no single component alone causes the top event — reports no single point of failure.

P(top) is computed, not drawn. With independent basic events, P(top) ≈ P(PA)·P(PB) = 1.0e-4 (rare-event). Adding a second pump turned two 1-in-100 components into a 1-in-10,000 system — exactly the quantified payoff redundancy is meant to deliver.

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