Flight Control System Reliability and Maintainability Investigations

Abstract

Army helicopter nonrotating flight control system specifications, standards, and design handbooks were reviewed for areas in which improvements could be made to requirements affecting system and mission reliability and maintainability. R and M requirements were essentially missing from all documents reviewed, and therefore specific requirements were added for reliability, maintainability, and supporting workmanship, qualification, and production acceptance. Special emphasis was directed toward requiring those distributional material properties, failure and maintenance time data, and analytical methods which permit 'Design for Reliability (Probabilistic Design) and Maintainability' directly into components and thus into the flight control system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA012233

Entities

People

  • Gavin Jenney
  • Jerry Bryant
  • John Zipperer

Organizations

  • Bell Flight

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Climate Change
  • Electronic Components
  • Engineers
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Fluid Control
  • Fluidic Devices
  • Military Aircraft
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Equipment
  • Test Methods
  • Transducers

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Software Engineering
  • Statistical inference.