Incorporation of Reliability Analysis Methods with Modelica

A novel method is being developed to combine tech-niques of safety and reliability analysis with the Modelica language, which is now widely used for the modelling and simulation of technical systems. The new method allows to perform reliability calcu-lations based on the system model that is created and used for simulation studies. The reliability analysis procedure is started “at the push of a button” and de-termines the so called minimum path sets and the failure probability of a system automatically. The incorporated reliability computation methods are realised initially by a new modelling and analysis tool supporting concept design studies of aircraft on-board electric power systems