Maintenance on gas turbine engines results from failures in one ore more of the engine's major subsections. Maintenance and support costs can be reduced if the capability exists to isolate the failures down to the lowest possible component in the engine. The modular engine maintenance concept has recently been evolved to facilitate this cost reduction. The important considerations as well as the benefits of this concept are discussed. Considerations included are: 1) design, 2) failure modes and isolation techniques, and 3) implementation. The Air Force F100-PW-100 engine maintenance concept is used for discussion purposes. (Kursetz)
Modular engine maintenance concept considerations for aircraft turbine engines
Modellaufbau eines Instandhaltungsprogrammes fuer Flugzeug-Turbinentriebwerke
SAE-Papers ; 1-6
1977
6 Seiten, 4 Bilder, 3 Quellen
Conference paper
English
Modular Engine Maintenance Concept Considerations for Aircraft Turbine Engines
SAE Technical Papers | 1977
|Modular Engine Maintenance Concept Considerations for Aircraft Turbine Engines
Emerald Group Publishing | 1978
|Maintenance Cost Forecast for Civil Aircraft Gas Turbine Engines
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1999
|Engineering Index Backfile | 1948
Inclement Weather Considerations for Aircraft Engines
AIAA | 2007
|