This paper presents a description of economical and reliable methods for utilizing a Health and Usage Monitoring System to monitor the structural usage of rotorcraft during flight, report that usage in an error-free manner to a ground-based web server, and provide accumulated damage information back to the operator on a seven-day by twenty-four hour basis using the Internet. The benefits of these methods to rotorcraft operators are: to maintain, with greater confidence, the same 'six-nines' of structural reliability as the long-established safe-life methodology; to modify retirement lives (and reduce component replacement costs) in those instances where usage is more benign than initially assumed; to reduce retirement lives (and enhance airworthiness) in those instances where usage is more severe than initially assumed; provide low cost and convenient daily feedback of fatigue damage to operators and pilots so corrective actions may be taken to reduce the rate of damage accumulation; and provide the ability to employ the latest available fatigue parameters in the recalculation of retirement times of components in service.
Economical and reliable methods of processing HUMS data for maintenance credits
1999
10 Seiten, 7 Quellen
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
Economical and Reliable Methods of Processing HUMS Data for Maintenance Credits
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1999
|British Library Conference Proceedings | 2002
|HUMS Conditioned Based Maintenance Credit Validation
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2007
|Reliability and Maintenance Experience of FDR/HUMS Installations
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1994
|British Library Conference Proceedings | 2014
|