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David Gerhardinger, Anita Domitrovic, Karolina Krajcek Nikolic and Darko Ivancevic
This paper introduces an expert system approach for predicting the remaining useful life (RUL) of light aircraft structural components by analyzing operational and maintenance records. The expert system consists of four modules: knowledge acquisition, kn...
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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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Elif Karakilic, Enes Gunaltili, Selcuk Ekici, Alper Dalkiran, Ozgur Balli and Tahir Hikmet Karakoc
The rapid growth of airlines over the last period has led to the development of the aviation industry, resulting in increased requirements for ancillary services. Nowadays, the demand for the use of paper-based documents is increasing day by day as airli...
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Graham Wild
Aircraft maintenance is defined by the ICAO as the tasks that need to be carried out on an aircraft to ensure its continuing airworthiness. Accidents that result from aircraft maintenance activities are a direct measurable outcome that can be used to bro...
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Juseong Lee, Mihaela Mitici, Henk A. P. Blom, Pierre Bieber and Floris Freeman
The increasing use of on-board sensor monitoring and data-driven algorithms has stimulated the recent shift to data-driven predictive maintenance for aircraft. This paper discusses emerging challenges for data-driven predictive aircraft maintenance. We i...
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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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Florence Paris, Remy Casanova, Marie-Line Bergeonneau and Daniel Mestre
Maintenance is a highly procedural activity requiring motor and cognitive engagement. The aim of this experimental study was to examine how expertise affects maintenance tasks, in particular, the use of procedural documents. A total of 22 aircraft mainte...
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Peter Korba, Ingrid Sekelová, Branko Mikula and Martina Ko?cáková
English is used in all parts of aviation, especially in aircraft maintenance, where all documentation and various manuals are written in this language. However, there are no formal requirements for aircraft mechanics to have a certain level of English. N...
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Tim Hoff, Florian Becker, Alireza Dadashi, Kai Wicke and Gerko Wende
Hydrogen is one of the most promising power sources for meeting the aviation sector?s long-term decarbonization goals. Although on-board hydrogen systems, namely, fuel cells, are extensively researched, the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) perspect...
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Hyeonju Lee, Donghyun Woo and Sunjin Yu
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a shift from in-person to remote education, with most students taking classes via video meetings. This change inhibits active class participation from students. In particular, video education has limitations i...
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Agnes A. R. Broer, Rinze Benedictus and Dimitrios Zarouchas
With the increased use of composites in aircraft, many new successful contributions to the advancement of the structural health monitoring (SHM) field for composite aerospace structures have been achieved. Yet its application is still not often seen in o...
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Fawaz Abdulmalek, Mehmet Savsar
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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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James Clare and Kyriakos I. Kourousis
Learning from incidents (LFI) is a useful approach when examining past events and developing measures to prevent ensuing recurrence. Although the reporting of incidents in the aircraft maintenance and continuing airworthiness domain is well appointed, it...
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James Clare and Kyriakos I. Kourousis
In this research paper fifteen mandatory occurrence reports are analysed. The purpose of this is to highlight the learning potential incidents such as these may possess for organisations involved in aircraft maintenance and continuing airworthiness manag...
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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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Pedro Andrade, Catarina Silva, Bernardete Ribeiro and Bruno F. Santos
This paper presents a Reinforcement Learning (RL) approach to optimize the long-term scheduling of maintenance for an aircraft fleet. The problem considers fleet status, maintenance capacity, and other maintenance constraints to schedule hangar checks fo...
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Mihaela Mitici and Ingeborg de Pater
Remaining-useful-life prognostics for aircraft components are central for efficient and robust aircraft maintenance. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end approach to obtain online, model-based remaining-useful-life prognostics by learning from cluster...
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Hemmo Koornneef, Wim J. C. Verhagen and Richard Curran
Aircraft dispatch involves determining the optimal dispatch option when an aircraft experiences an unexpected failure. Currently, maintenance technicians at the apron have limited access to support information and finding the right information in extensi...
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Duarte P. Pereira, Isaias L. R. Gomes, Rui Melicio and Victor M. F. Mendes
This paper addresses a support information system for the planning of aircraft maintenance teams, assisting maintenance managers in delivering an aircraft on time. The developed planning of aircraft maintenance teams is a computer application based on a ...
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