Probabilistic Risk Assessment: Impact of Human Factors on Nondestructive Evaluation and Sensor Degradation on Structural Health Monitoring (Preprint)

Abstract

Managing human factors in nondestructive evaluation is critical to maintain inspection reliability. Reliability of structural health monitoring systems is particularly sensitive to sensor degradation over time. To investigate the impact of these issues, probabilistic models for risk assessment and cost-benefits analysis have been developed. Quantitative studies are presented evaluating the effects of variations in probability of detection associated with human factors, plus in-situ sensor degradation on life cycle measures such as cost and probability of failure.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA464678

Entities

People

  • Daniel A. Allwine
  • Enrique A. Medina
  • Eric A. Lindgren
  • Jeremy S. Knopp
  • John C. Aldrin
  • Joseph Fisher
  • Mohammed Qadeer Ahmed

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Case Studies
  • Cycles
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Engineering
  • Life Cycles
  • Monitoring
  • Probabilistic Models
  • Probability
  • Reliability
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Sensor Networks
  • Structural Health Monitoring
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Aviation Safety Risk Assessment.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.