The perceived benefits of permanent usage monitoring equipment in helicopters include savings in the cost of helicopter maintenance and a favourable impact on safety and fleet management. Unlike indirect fatigue monitoring, direct load monitoring relies on a large number of sensors which requires high operational and maintenance costs. In this paper, a learning network has been developed, and during training sessions allowed to learn how to predict fatigue damage indirectly from flight parameters. Each training example consists of instantaneous fatigue damage induced during a small time step, and flight parameters measured during the time step. The instantaneous damage values are evaluated through a new approach called the progressive damage model. By considering the laws of aerodynamics and dynamics, the network combines the flight parameters in such a way that the resulting features can be mapped into fatigue. About 10.5 flying hours of data were used to train the network. After training, the network was blind tested using flight parameters from 5.8 flying hours. The network was found to predict the fatigue damage of two rotating components indirectly from the flight parameters with accuracy better than the accuracy of a strain gauge system with 5 per cent measurement error.


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    Titel :

    A practical approach for the indirect prediction of structural fatigue from measured flight parameters


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Ein praktisches Verfahren zur Vorhersage der Dauerfestigkeiten von Hubschrauberstrukturen aus den gemessenen Flugparametern


    Beteiligte:
    Azzam, H. (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1997


    Format / Umfang :

    10 Seiten, 7 Bilder, 23 Quellen




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch






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