common cause

基本解釋

This paper presents the asymptotic stability of a two identical unit parallel system with a warm standby subject to common-cause failures.
討論了具有熱儲備和兩個獨立相同部件的平行系統(tǒng)在由常槼錯誤引起失傚下的漸進穩(wěn)定性。
The probability is hard to calculate primarily because of the possibility of what are called common-cause accidents, where the loss of off-site power and of on-site power are caused by the same thing.
這個幾率很難去計算的原因主要是因爲發(fā)生所謂共發(fā)生事故的可能性，也就是說造成站外及站內(nèi)電源掉線的是同一個原因。
The probability is hard to calculate primarily because of the possibility of what are called common-cause accidents, where the loss of off-site power and of on-site power are caused by the same thing.
發(fā)生此類事故的概率很難估計，因爲發(fā)生由於同種因素導致核電站內(nèi)外同時斷電的概率難以計算。

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