Functional element - 3SE
Approvedhttps://www.3se.info/3se-onto/terms/functional-element-3se-069b9d2c8d9d7504
Part of a system element responsible for carrying out some of the system functions, by interacting with other functional elements of the system and/or enabling system functional elements and/or functional actors.
Classification
flowchart TD
N1["Functional element"]:::current
N2["Fiat object part"]
N3["Safety functional element"]
N4["Security functional element"]
N1 -->|subclass of| N2
N3 -->|subclass of| N1
N4 -->|subclass of| N1
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Allocations
flowchart TD
N1["Functional element"]:::current
N2["System element state"]
N3["System element function"]
N4["Software function"]
N5["Software feature"]
N6["Hardware function"]
N7["Hardware feature"]
N8["System element function attribute"]
N9["System architecture constraint"]
N10["Hardware state"]
N11["Software state"]
N12["System element state attribute"]
N13["Functional element attribute"]
N14["System non-functional requirement"]
N15["Physical element"]
N16["System element"]
N17["Physical element variant"]
N18["System element variant"]
N1 -.->|allocates| N2
N2 -.->|allocates| N3
N3 -.->|allocates| N4
N4 -.->|allocates| N5
N3 -.->|allocates| N6
N6 -.->|allocates| N7
N3 -.->|allocates| N8
N8 -.->|allocates| N9
N3 -.->|allocates| N9
N2 -.->|allocates| N10
N10 -.->|allocates| N6
N2 -.->|allocates| N11
N11 -.->|allocates| N4
N2 -.->|allocates| N9
N2 -.->|allocates| N12
N12 -.->|allocates| N9
N1 -.->|allocates| N13
N13 -.->|allocates| N12
N13 -.->|allocates| N14
N15 -.->|allocates| N1
N16 -.->|allocates| N15
N17 -.->|allocates| N1
N18 -.->|allocates| N17
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Relations
JSON-LD
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Raw JSON-LD: index.jsonld
Created 2026-03-17 · Modified 2026-10-16 · by @rcasteran