System-level health assessment of complex engineered processes

• Main Author: Abbas, Manzar
• Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2011
• Subjects: Fault diagnostics; Failure prognostics; Response surface metamodels; Condition-based maintenance (CBM); Design of experiments (DOE); Prognostics and health management (PHM); System-level; Systems engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/37260

Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) and Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) technologies aim at improving the availability, reliability, maintainability, and safety of systems through the development of fault diagnostic and failure prognostic algorithms. In complex engineering systems, such as aircraft, power plants, etc., the prognostic activities have been limited to the component-level, primarily due to the complexity of large-scale engineering systems. However, the output of these prognostic algorithms can be practically useful for the system managers, operators, or maintenance personnel, only if it helps them in making decisions, which are based on system-level parameters. Therefore, there is an emerging need to build health assessment methodologies at the system-level. This research employs techniques from the field of design-of-experiments to build response surface metamodels at the system-level that are built on the foundations provided by component-level damage models.