We address the problem of assigning forces to jacking positions in order to weaken stress at points where an aircraft maintenance operation has to be performed. We introduce a mixed-integer linear programming model and report encouraging computational experiments on historical data. Our methodology is currently under the process of industrial implementation at Airbus, where it will be used as a maintenance decision-analysis tool.
Aircraft maintenance jacking problem via optimization
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems ; 41 , 1 ; 99-109
2005-01-01
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