STO FUNCTION
APPLICATION MANUAL
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9. TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
A
ccording to EN 61508-6, Table B.1:
Abbreviation
Term (units)
T1
Proof-test interval (hour)
MTTR
Mean time to restoration (hour)
DC
Diagnostic coverage (expressed as a fraction in equation and as a percentage
elsewhere)
Fraction of undetected failures that have a common cause (expressed as a
fraction in equation and as a percentage elsewhere)
D
Fraction of detected failures that have a common cause (expressed as a fraction
in equation and as a percentage elsewhere)
Failure rate (per hour) of a channel in a subsystem
PFH
G
Probability of failure per hour for the group of voted channels
D
Dangerous failure rate (per hour) of a channel in a subsystem, equal to 0.5
DD
Detected dangerous failure rate (per hour) of a channel in a subsystem (sum of
all the detected dangerous failure rates within the channel of the subsystem)
DU
Undetected dangerous failure rate (per hour) of a channel in a subsystem (sum
of all the undetected dangerous failure rates within the channel of the
subsystem)
SD
Detected safe failure rate (per hour) of a channel in a subsystem (sum of all the
detected safe failure rates within the channel of the subsystem)
SU
Undetected safe failure rate (per hour) of a channel in a subsystem (sum of all
the undetected safe failure rates within the channel of the subsystem)
t
CE
Channel equivalent mean down time (hour) for 1oo1, 1oo2, 2oo2 and 2oo3
architectures (combined down time for all the components in the channel of the
subsystem)