An optimal structured policy for maintenance of partially observable aircraft engine components

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 335-352

  Hopp, Wallace J ^a   Kuo, Yar Lin ^b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Crack growth; Equipment maintenance; Partially observable Markov decision processes; Reliability

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; DECISION MAKING; MAINTENANCE; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY; SCHEDULING; SENSORS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

OPTIMAL STRUCTURED POLICY; PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE AIRCRAFT ENGINE COMPONENTS;

AIRCRAFT ENGINES;

EID: 0032095662     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6750(199806)45:4<335::AID-NAV1>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Bertsekas, D.P., and Shreve, S.E., Stochastic Optimal Control: Discrete Time Case, Academic, New York, 1978.
2. Bogdanoff, J.L., "A New Cumulative Damage Model, Part I," Journal of Applied Mechanics, 45, 245-250 (1978).
3. Bogdanoff, J.L., "A New Cumulative Damage Model, Part III," Journal of Applied Mechanics, 45, 733-739 (1978).
4. Bogdanoff, J.L., and Kozin, F., "A New Cumulative Damage Model, Part V," Journal of Applied Mechanics, 47, 40-44 (1980).
5. Bogdanoff, J.L., and Kozin, F., Probabilistic Models of Cumulative Damage, Wiley, New York, 1985.
6. Bogdanoff, J.L., and Krieger, W., "A New Cumulative Damage Model, Part II," Journal of Applied Mechanics, 45, 251-257 (1978).
7. Brown, L.D., Johnstone, I.M., and MacGibbon, K.B., "Variation Diminishing Transformations: A Direct Approach to Total Positivity and its Statistical Applications," Journal of the American Statistical Association, 76(376), 824-832 (1981).
8. Ditlevsen, O., "Random Fatigue Crack Growth - A First Passage Problem," Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 23(2), 467-477 (1986).
9. Esary, J.D., Marshall, A.W., and Prochan, F., "Shock Models and Wear Processes," Annals of Probability, 15(2), 627-638 (1973).
10. Hopp, W.J., and Wu, S.C., "Multiaction Maintenance under Markovian Deterioration and Incomplete State Information," Naval Research Logistics, 35, 447-462 (1988).
11. Karlin, S., Total Positivity, Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, CA, 1968, Vol. 1.
12. Kuo, Y.L., "Scheduling Aircraft Engine Maintenance: Modeling and Optimization," unpublished doctoral dissertation, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1995.
13. Lin, Y.K., and Yang, J.N., "A Stochastic Theory of Fatigue Crack Propagation," AIAA Journal, 23(1), 117-124 (1985).
14. Monhan, G.E., "A Survey of Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes: Theory, Models and Algorithms," Management Science, 28(11), 1-16 (1982).
15. Rosenfield, D., "Markovian Deterioration with Uncertain Information," Operations Research, 24(1), 141-155 (1976).
16. Sobczyk, S., and Spencer, B.F., Jr., Random Fatigue: From Data to Theory, Academic, New York, 1992.
17. Sobczyk, S., and Trebicki, J., "Modelling of Random Fatigue by Cumulative Jump processes," Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 34(2), 477-493 (1989).
18. Spencer, B.F., Jr., Tang, J., and Artley, M.E., "A Stochastic Approach to Modeling Fatigue Crack Growth," AIAA Journal, 27(11), 1628-1635 (1989).
19. Tsuri, A., Nienstedt, J., Schueller, G.I., and Tanaka, H., "Time-Variant Structural Reliability using Diffusive Crack Growth Models," Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 34(1), 153-167 (1989).
20. Yang, J.N., "Statistical Estimation of Economic Life for Aircraft Structure," Journal of Aircraft, 17(7), 528-535 (1980).