...Hangjia Dong; Tuanjie Li; Zuowei Wang; Yuming Ning Purpose The inchworm actuator is widely applied in space industry. One of the major issues in space instrumentation is the reliability, especially under space thermal load. The purpose of this paper is to present a numerical calculation method...

... in strength is mostly because of variation in diameter of the tether and the properties of the material along the length of the tether. As a result, classical design approach for the tether may not serve the purpose. For this purpose, a reliability-based design of hybrid tether is discussed in this paper...

...Bartosz Dziugiel Purpose The purpose of this paper is to define reliability requirements to be imposed on electric engines to assure similar or higher value of mean time between failures (MTBF) for mixed piston-electric propulsion configurations when compared to classic and unconventional piston...

...; Reliability Accuracy PPP method GLONASS Air navigation In the cosmic space, there can be distinguished satellites of four satellite navigation system with global radius, i.e. global positioning system (GPS; US property), global navigation satellite system (GLONASS; Russian Federation property...

... Incidents and Accident (MTBIA) increased by 200 per cent. Additionally, the introduced alterations impacted the weights of particular domains and pilot’s error became less critical than the technical reliability. Practical implications It was shown that the application of new requirements influences...

... to quantify the effects of these uncertainties so as to improve the reliability of the component. This paper aims to address these issues. Design/methodology/approach The flow for probabilistic design established through investigating traditional design methods of the turbine disk at high temperature...

...Lixuan Lu; Jianhe Lei Purpose Proper function of landing gear plays a crucial role in the safe operation of an airplane. Traditional landing gear control system utilizes centralized control technology. The relatively heavy wire harness and low reliability accompanied with this technology make...

... © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Aircraft Reliability Maintenance Testing GKN Westland Helicopters Keywords Aircraft, Reliability, Maintenance, Testing, GKN Westland,Helicopters The two Anglo-Italian EH101 aircraft involved in the intensive flight operations programme (IFOP...

...Terry Ford In the early 1990s, information was published drawing attention to the advances made in engine and component reliability over the past two decades and giving some thoughts to the trends in the future. Rolls‐Royce has been very prominent in these activities for many years and at the time...

...Heiner Düpow; Gordon Blount A general review has been conducted to emphasize the increasing concern with reliability in the engineering industry. The latest books and publications available to the authors have been reviewed during the survey to identify the latest thinking on the topic. Emphasizes...