Inspection Program Development for Stationary Operation of Fatigue-Prone Aircraft Park

4th International Conference on Scientific Aspects of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (SAUAV-2010) : Proceedings 2010
Māris Hauka, Jurijs Paramonovs

The paper describes the development of the methodology of the choice of aircraft fleet’s inspec-tion intervals. This methodology is verified, using the experimental fatigue crack growth data. Meth-odology includes in the economic parameters, such as the inspection costs. Using this method it is possible to find safe- enough and the most cost- effective inspection planning programs. In addition the paper includes testing of the methodology at different design permissive fatigue failure (FF) prob-abilities and their impact on the real probability of FF and the number of inspection intervals for the model with one aircraft and with aircraft fleet.

Keywords
inspection, reliability, fatigue-prone airframe, Markov chains

Hauka, M., Paramonovs, J. Inspection Program Development for Stationary Operation of Fatigue-Prone Aircraft Park. In: 4th International Conference on Scientific Aspects of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (SAUAV-2010) : Proceedings, Poland, Suchedniów, 5-7 May, 2010. Kielce: Kielce University of Technology, 2010, pp.276-284. ISBN 978-83-88592-70-6.

Publication language
English (en)