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Automated Contingency Management for Propulsion Systems
Increasing demand for improved reliability and survivability of mission-critical systems is driving the development of health monitoring and Automated Contingency Management... -
Simulation-based Design and Validation of Automated Contingency Management...
This paper introduces a novel Prognostics-enhanced Automated Contingency Management (or ACM+P) paradigm based on both current health state (diagnosis) and future health state... -
Developing IVHM Requirements for Aerospace Systems
The term Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM) describes a set of capabilities that enable sustainable and safe operation of components and subsystems within aerospace... -
An Energy-Based Prognostic Framework to Predict Fatigue Damage Evolution in...
In this work, a prognostics framework to predict the evolution of damage in fiber-reinforced composites materials under fatigue loads is proposed. The assessment of internal... -
Probabilistic Delamination Diagnosis of Composite Materials Using a Novel...
In this paper, a probabilistic delamination location and size detection framework is proposed. The delamination probability image using Lamb wave-based damage detection is... -
Fatigue Damage Prognosis in FRP Composites by Combining Multi-Scale...
In this work, a framework for the estimation of the fatigue damage propagation in CFRP composites is proposed. Macro-scale phenomena such as stiffness and strength degradation... -
Towards Requirements in Systems Engineering for Aerospace IVHM Design
Health management (HM) technologies have been employed for safety critical system for decades, but a coherent systematic process to integrate HM into the system design is not... -
Evaluating the Impact of Unrestricted Operation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems...
Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) can be used for scientific, emergency management, and defense missions, among others. The existing federal air regulations, procedures, and... -
A multi-feature integration method for fatigue crack detection and crack...
This paper presents an experimental study of damage detection and quantification in riveted lap joints. Embedded lead zirconate titanate piezoelectric (PZT) ceramic wafer-type...