How Systems Really Fail

These webpages currently have a home at NASA's DASHlink site. They contain descriptions of actual electronic systems failure scenarios with an emphasis on the diversity of failure modes and effects that can befall dependable systems.

Introductory pages begin here.
The descriptions begin here. These pages are separated into sections. Each section starts with a List of failure scenarios. In between the List slides are slides that give more information on those scenarios of previous List slide which warrant more than a bullet or two of explanation. 

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