Browse Topic: Maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO)
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The operation of Urban Air Mobility Vehicles (UAMVs) presents significant technical and operational challenges, particularly in the areas of safety, training, and cost management. This paper explores how advanced simulation models and predictive algorithms can address these challenges. A digital transformation framework is developed and applied in an Urban Air Mobility (UAM) case study to illustrate the effectiveness of these tools. Through the development of simulation models, critical insights are provided on damage detection, impact analysis, and maintenance optimization. The application of predictive algorithms enables quick damage assessment, improving safety by facilitating timely maintenance and repair decisions. To help showcase the benefits of this research, a demonstration was designed and built that allows users to interact with the developed tools and get a better understanding through hands-on training.
Electrification could improve full-size rotorcraft performance by reducing peak turbine power demand, reducing transmission system weight and complexity, and reducing operating costs. Integrating electric machines with mechanical powertrains requires careful consideration of the system-level weight and efficiency impacts. This paper presents an optimization framework for evaluating parallel hybrid powertrain configurations using Geometric Programming (GP). Both retrofit and clean-sheet vehicle designs are considered. The results show that high-speed electric motors integrated into a parallel hybrid configuration using batteries can reduce the sized gas turbine power, enabling more efficient engine operation at lower power levels. For retrofit designs, with a fixed vehicle gross weight, adding batteries and motors reduces usable fuel, decreasing mission capability. Clean-sheet designs offer additional flexibility to re-size the vehicle and rotor, resulting in energy savings for an
As part of a human factors research project aimed at optimizing technical documentation used in helicopter maintenance with multimedia elements, we compared different instruction formats to observe their effects on the performance of an assembly task. This task offers us the opportunity to test procedures that call for similar actions as a maintenance task (e.g., localization, action sequencing, assembly). Static (i.e., image and image with text) and dynamic instruction formats (i.e., video, video with text and video with audio) were compared to determine if dynamic formats allowed a better motor performance of the task for assembly reaction time (time needed to complete the assembly) and accuracy. We were also interested in how the use of the text instructions interacted with both visual dynamic and static instructions. Reaction times were recorded and measured with eye tracking data. Subjective data was collected in questionnaires during and after the experiment. Results showed
Aircraft Certification is a mature and complex bureaucracy that has successfully ensured a very high degree of safety of aircraft design, construction, operation and maintenance. Outside of a very few doing the work, there is a general lack of knowledge of certification details. For novel technologies such as electric power, and innovative configurations such as multi-rotors, the rules are far less mature and still emerging and so also poorly understood. Within the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) initiative, many new aircraft developments are underway using novel configurations, and the public announcements of regulatory progress toward FAA or EASA Type Certification capitalize on this ignorance by being vague or even misleading. Honeywell conceived the Regulatory Readiness Level (RRL) indicator as an objective measure of certification status to serve the AAM industry and ecosystem, with applicability across aviation. The released RRL Version 1 now enables credible, objective assessment of
Maintenance of spatial orientation (SO) is achieved primarily through visual information where the horizon and celestial reference cues or flight instruments are used by pilots to infer aircraft orientation. However, cross checking the instruments in degraded visual environments can be complicated by factors such as workload, distraction, and situations where the vestibular and proprioceptive systems may provide false and competing orientation information. We describe experiments measuring pilot performance using a flight simulator under challenging conditions where the sensory information was controlled. Reducing available visual instruments increased the task difficulty. A wearable vibrotactile array could provide concurrent, additional orientation information. Increasing the flying task segment difficulty increased the perceived workload and also corresponded to an increase in accidents. Adding tactile orientation information reduced the accident rate.
Wear debris monitoring and analysis is a common practice for the condition assessment of engine and transmission health. Oil debris monitoring (ODM) and electronic chip detectors (ECD) are two common methods deployed for continuous monitoring of oil wetted component health in-flight. This study evaluates the diagnostic performance of the two sensing technologies within controlled rolling element bearing (REB) fault experiments. Progressive visual inspection of the REB spall progression through failure provided a ground truth against which both systems could be compared. Quantifiable metrics of reliability, diagnostic accuracy, provided maintenance interval were defined to create a framework for condition-based maintenance (CBM) program decision making. In summary, it was found that the ODM sensor system provided earlier fault notice, but more so, vastly outperformed the ECD in reliability and avoidance of false positives.
The DoD enterprise requires a blueprint for each service and industry base to develop, integrate, and connect crewed and uncrewed platforms across the aviation and ground domains to satisfy the goals of programs such as Replicator, Human Machine Integrated Formation (HMIF) and Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) as a whole. Thanks to years of architecture work by Program Executive Office (PEO) Aviation, PEO Ground Control System (GCS), and the Ground Vehicle Services Center (GVSC), the necessary open standards-based reference architectures, objective architectures, Major System Components (MSCs), and Major System Interfaces (MSIs) can be leveraged to create an executable plan for the Army, the DoD, and the international community as a whole. This paper proposes how to leverage government-owned elements across multiple Army offices to provide a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) that achieves the speed, portability, and interoperability of capabilities needed for the
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The aerospace ecosystem is a complex system of systems comprising of many stakeholders in exchanging technical, design, development, certification, operational, and maintenance data across the different lifecycle stages of an aircraft from concept, engineering, manufacturing, operations, and maintenance to its disposal. Many standards have been developed to standardize and improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and security of the data transfer processes in the aerospace ecosystem. There are still challenges in data transfer due to the lack of standards in certain areas and lack of awareness and implementation of some standards. G-31 standards committee of SAE International has conducted a study on the available digital data standards in aircraft asset life cycle to understand the current and future landscapes of the needed digital data standards and identify gaps. This technical paper presents the study conducted by the G-31 technical committee. This paper reviews the data being
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