A Systems Engineering Approach to Integrated Structural Health Monitoring for Aging Aircraft

Abstract

The United States Air Force and many of its Coalition partners have extended the original service life of some of their aging aircraft due to fiscal constraints. This life extension often requires increased periodic and in-depth inspections; increasing maintenance costs and resulting in longer periods of aircraft downtime. A structural health monitoring system for aging aircraft could reduce the current inspection burden, and thus decrease costs and system downtime. This presentation describes a baseline systems engineering methodology for system definition of an aging aircraft structural health monitoring system. Analysis was performed to quantify the potential benefit a structural health monitoring affords.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 23, 2006
Accession Number
ADA449297

Entities

People

  • Alan P. Albert
  • Efstathios Antoniou
  • Kimberly A. Tooman
  • Ramon L. Veglio
  • Stephen D. Leggiero

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Commercial Aircraft
  • Downtime
  • Engineers
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • General Aviation Aircraft
  • Maintenance
  • Military Aircraft
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training Aircraft

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

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