ABSTRACT

In the recent years there is a constant growth of interest in Resilience Engineering. According to its approach, accidents in complex socio-technical systems happen due to ‘functional resonance’ of many underdefined system functions. The resonance is often analysed and presented with help of Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM). However, in many reported research, the analysis is limited to a separated group of functions and describes a process rather than a system as a whole. Contrary to this common practice, we assume that the processes are ‘looped’ and the system functioning— infinite. In the paper, we introduce a concept of a novel computer software which can demonstrate such systems described with FRAM models. The prepared software has been used for simulating a moving tram. Several simulations with different parameters have been compared to show the possible use of this software in further investigating of systems described with help of FRAM.