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Reliability Based Aircraft Maintenance Optimization and Applications
- 1st Edition - March 19, 2017
- Authors: He Ren, Xi Chen, Yong Chen
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 2 6 6 8 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 2 6 6 9 - 1
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Request a sales quoteReliability Based Aircraft Maintenance Optimization and Applications presents flexible and cost-effective maintenance schedules for aircraft structures, particular in composite airframes. By applying an intelligent rating system, and the back-propagation network (BPN) method and FTA technique, a new approach was created to assist users in determining inspection intervals for new aircraft structures, especially in composite structures.
This book also discusses the influence of Structure Health Monitoring (SHM) on scheduled maintenance. An integrated logic diagram establishes how to incorporate SHM into the current MSG-3 structural analysis that is based on four maintenance scenarios with gradual increasing maturity levels of SHM. The inspection intervals and the repair thresholds are adjusted according to different combinations of SHM tasks and scheduled maintenance.
This book provides a practical means for aircraft manufacturers and operators to consider the feasibility of SHM by examining labor work reduction, structural reliability variation, and maintenance cost savings.
- Presents the first resource available on airframe maintenance optimization
- Includes the most advanced methods and technologies of maintenance engineering analysis, including first application of composite structure maintenance engineering analysis integrated with SHM
- Provides the latest research results of composite structure maintenance and health monitoring systems
Graduate students in aerospace engineering, researchers and designers in aircraft reliability and maintainability engineering; aerospace engineers in composite airframe maintenance and maintenance engineering analysis
Chapter 1: Introduction
- Abstract
- 1.1. Challenges of modern developing commercial aircraft
- 1.2. Evolution of aircraft maintenance process
- 1.3. Aircraft composite structures
- 1.4. Reliability-centered maintenance
- 1.5. MSG-3 structural analysis
- 1.6. A380 maintenance programs
- 1.7. Summary
Chapter 2: Basic Concepts
- Abstract
- 2.1. Accident
- 2.2. Near misses
- 2.3. Risk
- 2.4. Safety
- 2.5. Reliability
- 2.6. Risk management
- 2.7. Incident
- 2.8. Airworthiness
- 2.9. Quality
- 2.10. Airworthiness
- 2.11. Availability
- 2.12. Aircraft maintenance
- 2.13. Sources and types of failure in aircraft
- 2.14. Maintenance system and tasks
- 2.15. Component servicing
- 2.16. Overhaul
- 2.17. Bay servicing
- 2.18. Replacement/throwaway
- 2.19. Functional testing
- 2.20. Calibration
- 2.21. Nondestructive evaluation
- 2.22. Avionics maintenance
- 2.23. Software maintenance
- 2.24. Interdependence of operations and maintenance
Chapter 3: Aircraft Reliability and Maintainability Analysis and Design
- Abstract
- 3.1. Reliability fundamental mathematics
- 3.2. Some common failure distributions
- 3.3. Binary system reliability models
- 3.4. Mechanical reliability—stress–strength interference model
- 3.5. Fuzzy reliability theory
- 3.6. Hardware reliability
- 3.7. Maintainability analysis and design
- 3.8. Specification of maintainability [29]
- 3.9. Assessment and prediction of maintainability
- 3.10. Maintainability design: The affected factors
- 3.11. Maintainability design: Criteria
- 3.12. Maintainability design: Allocation
- 3.13. Maintainability design—limiting clearance [31]
- 3.14. Maintainability design—accessibility
- 3.15. Maintainability design—packaging
- 3.16. Maintainability design—standardization and interchange ability
- 3.17. Maintainability design—installation-components arrangement
- 3.18. Maintainability design—general criteria
- 3.19. Maintainability demonstration and testing [32]
- 3.20. Maintainability and reliability program activities during the phases of a project [33]
- 3.21. Maintainability management
Chapter 4: RCM and Integrated Logistic Support
- Abstract
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Maintenance analysis procedures
- 4.3. Statistical reliability assessment
- 4.4. Logistic support analysis
- 4.5. Fault tree analysis
- 4.6. Level of repair analysis
- 4.7. Logistic support analysis record
- 4.8. LSA models
- 4.9. Elements of ILS
- 4.10. Support equipment
- 4.11. Facilities
- 4.12. Data
Chapter 5: Intelligent Structural Rating System Based on Back-Propagation Network
- Abstract
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Artificial neural network
- 5.3. Design BPN for AD
- 5.4. Discussion
- 5.5. Conclusions
Chapter 6: Fault Tree Analysis for Composite Structural Damage
- Abstract
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Basic principles of fault tree analysis
- 6.3. FTA for composite damage
- 6.4. Qualitative analysis
- 6.5. Quantitative analysis
- 6.6. Discussion
- 6.7. Potential solutions
- 6.8. Conclusions
Chapter 7: Inspection Interval Optimization for Aircraft Composite Structures Considering Dent Damage
- Abstract
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Damage tolerance philosophy of composite structures
- 7.3. Damage characterization
- 7.4. Probabilistic method
- 7.5. Case study
- 7.6. Simulation results and discussion
- 7.7. Conclusions
Chapter 8: Repair Tolerance for Composite Structures Using Probabilistic Methodologies
- Abstract
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Repair tolerance
- 8.3. Probabilistic method
- 8.4. Case study
- 8.5. Results and discussion
- 8.6. Conclusions
Chapter 9: Structural Health Monitoring and Influence on Current Maintenance
- Abstract
- 9.1. Structural health monitoring technology
- 9.2. SHM applications in aircraft
- 9.3. Influence of SHM on current maintenance
- 9.4. Integration of SHM with MSG-3 analysis
- 9.5. Conclusions
Chapter 10: Maintenance Control and Management Optimization
- Abstract
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Qualifications of aircraft maintenance personnel
- 10.3. Specific aircraft type training
- 10.4. Occupational health and safety
- 10.5. Organization for maintenance control
- 10.6. System of control
- 10.7. Aircraft tail number maintenance planning
- 10.8. Certification of work done
- 10.9. Maintenance forms
- 10.10. Services
- 10.11. Maintenance schedules
- 10.12. Maintenance planning
- 10.13. Reference data definitions
- 10.14. Example of airline maintenance system development
Chapter 11: The Methodologies of Reliability and Maintainability in the A380 Program
- Abstract
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Reliability modeling approach
- 11.3. Reliability enhancement process
- 11.4. Validation and verification process
- 11.5. Advanced maintainability optimization
- 11.6. Conclusions
- No. of pages: 260
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 19, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128126684
- eBook ISBN: 9780128126691
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