Open AccessTopical Issues in Aircraft Health Management with Applications to Jet Engines
Author(s) -
Sorin Berbente,
Irina-Carmen Andrei,
Gabriela Stroe,
Mihaela-Luminița Costea
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
incas buletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.282
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 2247-4528
pISSN - 2066-8201
DOI - 10.13111/2066-8201.2020.12.1.2
Subject(s) - propulsion , prognostics , operability , context (archaeology) , jet engine , health management system , engineering , systems engineering , reliability engineering , risk analysis (engineering) , automotive engineering , computer science , aerospace engineering , medicine , paleontology , alternative medicine , pathology , biology
Aircraft Health Management Technology for jet engines represents a very important problem, since it develops a large impact on reducing the engine life cycle costs, improving the fuel efficiency, increasing the engines durability and life cycle. This technology is high-end and, in order to enable an improved level of performance that far exceeds the current one, propulsion systems must comply with terms of reducing harmful emissions, maximizing fuel efficiency and minimizing noise, while improving system’s affordability and safety. Aircraft Health Management Technology includes multiple goals of aircraft propulsion control, diagnostics problems, prognostics realized, and their proper integration in control systems. Modern control for Aircraft Health Management Technology is based on improved control techniques and therefore provides improved aircraft propulsion system performances. The study presented in this paper approaches a new concept, of attractive interest currently, that is the intelligent control; in this context, the Health Management of jet engines is crucial, being focused on engine controllers which are designed to match certain operability and performance constraints. Automated Engine Health Management has the capacity to significantly reduce the maintenance effort and propulsion systems’ logistical footprint. In order to prioritize and resolve problems in the field of support engineering there are required more detailed data on equipment reliability and failures detection and management; the equipment design, operations and maintenance procedures and tooling are also very important.