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Kyle Blond, Austin Himschoot, Eric Klein, Steven Conley and Anne Clark
This paper presents how the Inspection Development Framework?s (IDF) novel maintenance scheduling technique increased aircraft utilization and availability in a sample of the United States Air Force?s (USAF) C-5M Super Galaxy fleet. The hypothesis tested...
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Wen-Chung Wu and Van-Hoan Vu
Flight safety and airlines operation have been at the center of research since aircraft were first invented, as even slight errors in aircraft maintenance may cause serious accidents. Thus, aircraft maintenance is critical to the aviation industry all th...
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Jonas Aust, Antonija Mitrovic and Dirk Pons
Background?In aircraft engine maintenance, the majority of parts, including engine blades, are inspected visually for any damage to ensure a safe operation. While this process is called visual inspection, there are other human senses encompassed in this ...
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Jonas Aust and Dirk Pons
Risk assessment methods are widely used in aviation, but have not been demonstrated for visual inspection of aircraft engine components. The complexity in this field arises from the variety of defect types and the different manifestation thereof with eac...
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Florian Heilemann, Alireza Dadashi and Kai Wicke
In this research article, a novel endoscopic system, which is suited to perform a digital inspection of the aircraft wing fuel tanks, is introduced. The aim of this work is to specifically design and develop an assisting system, called `Eeloscope?, to al...
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Anil Dogru, Soufiane Bouarfa, Ridwan Arizar and Reyhan Aydogan
Convolutional Neural Networks combined with autonomous drones are increasingly seen as enablers of partially automating the aircraft maintenance visual inspection process. Such an innovative concept can have a significant impact on aircraft operations. T...
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Jonas Aust and Dirk Pons
Background?The inspection of aircraft parts is critical, as a defective part has many potentially adverse consequences. Faulty parts can initiate a system failure on an aircraft, which can lead to aircraft mishap if not well managed and has the potential...
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Khadijah Abdullahi Habib and Cengiz Turkoglu
The maintenance of aircraft presents considerable challenges to the personnel that maintain them. Challenges such as time pressure, system complexity, sparse feedback, cramped workspaces, etc., are being faced by these personnel on a daily basis. Some of...
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Jonas Aust and Dirk Pons
Background?Aircraft inspection is crucial for safe flight operations and is predominantly performed by human operators, who are unreliable, inconsistent, subjective, and prone to err. Thus, advanced technologies offer the potential to overcome those limi...
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Jonas Aust, Dirk Pons and Antonija Mitrovic
Background?There are various influence factors that affect visual inspection of aircraft engine blades including type of inspection, defect type, severity level, blade perspective and background colour. The effect of those factors on the inspection perfo...
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Jonas Aust, Sam Shankland, Dirk Pons, Ramakrishnan Mukundan and Antonija Mitrovic
Background?In the field of aviation, maintenance and inspections of engines are vitally important in ensuring the safe functionality of fault-free aircrafts. There is value in exploring automated defect detection systems that can assist in this process. ...
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Jonas Aust and Dirk Pons
Background?Bowtie analysis is a broadly used tool in risk management to identify root causes and consequences of hazards and show barriers that can prevent or mitigate the events to happen. Limitations of the method are reliance on judgement and an ad ho...
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Ting Dong and Nam H. Kim
Although structural health monitoring (SHM) technologies using sensors have dramatically been developed recently, their capability should be evaluated from the perspective of the maintenance industry. As a first step toward utilizing sensors, the objecti...
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Ting Dong and Nam H. Kim
Although structural health monitoring (SHM) technologies using sensors have dramatically been developed recently, their capability should be evaluated from the perspective of the maintenance industry. As a first step toward utilizing sensors, the objecti...
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Filomena Piscitelli and Annalisa Volpe
Corrosion is a persistent challenge in the aviation industry, affecting the safety, performance, and maintenance costs of aircraft. While composite materials have gained widespread use due to their lightweight properties and corrosion resistance, certain...
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Junwoo Lim, Seangwock Lee, Jaeyeop Chung, Youngwan Kim and Giyoung Park
Aircraft reciprocating engines have been in operation over the past 100 years, which is a testament to their high levels of reliability and stability. Compared to turbine engines, reciprocating engines are at a disadvantage when it comes to high-speed fl...
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