Monitoring tasks in aerospace.

Pant, Shashank; Sharif Khodaei, Zahra; Droubi, Mohamad Ghazi

Abstract

Approximately up to one-fifth of the direct operating cost of a commercial civilian fixed-wing aircraft is projected to be due to inspection and maintenance alone. Managing aircraft health with minimal human intervention and technologies that can perform continuous or on-demand monitoring/evaluation of aircraft components without having to take the aircraft out of service can have a significant impact on increasing availability while reducing maintenance cost. The ambition of these monitoring technologies is to shift aircraft maintenance practice from planned maintenance (PM), where the aircraft is taken out of service for scheduled inspection/maintenance, to condition-based maintenance (CBM), where aircraft is taken out of service only when maintenance is required, while maintaining the required levels of safety. Structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques can play a vital role in progressing towards CBM practice. Therefore, this chapter aims to provide the reader with a brief overview of the different SHM techniques and their use, as well as, challenges in implementing them for aircraft applications.

Citation

PANT, S., SHARIF KHODAEI, Z. and DROUBI, M.G. 2021. Monitoring tasks in aerospace. In Sause, M.G.R. and Jasiūnienė, E. (eds.) Structural health monitoring damage detection systems for aerospace. Springer aerospace technology. Cham: Springer [online], chapter 2, pages 5-14. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72192-3_2

• Online Publication Date: Sep 23, 2021
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2021
• Deposit Date: Oct 1, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 1, 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 5-14
• Series Title: Springer aeorospace technology (SAT)
• Series ISSN: 1869-1730
• Book Title: Structural health monitoring damage detection systems for aerospace
• Chapter Number: Chapter 2
• ISBN: 9783030721916; 9783030721947
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72192-3_2
• Keywords: Aircraft health management; Structural health monitoring; Condition based maintenance; Operation monitoring; Damage monitoring; Condition monitoring; Sensors
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1474800
• Contract Date: Sep 23, 2021