Health Management and Service Life for Air Force Missiles

Abstract

This briefing is about health management and service life for Air Force missiles. In 1994, industry and government addressed the issue of service life prediction of rocket motors. Consensus of the community was that the best predictions could be trusted to at most five years. Only way to accurately improve predictions was to move to a mechanistic (first-principles) methodology. Doubling the look-ahead window gives sufficient time to replace system without dramatically impacting readiness. Accurate method of predicting motor life prevents unnecessary replacement of good motors based on conservative service life perdictions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 26, 2011
Accession Number
ADA554598

Entities

People

  • Andrew Sincock
  • Eric Weber
  • Greg Ruderman

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Environment
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Governments
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Military Research
  • Physical Properties
  • Rocket Engines
  • Rockets
  • X-Ray Computed Tomography

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis