Minimizing Fatigue Damage in Aircraft Structures

Aircraft structural health monitoring (SHM) refers to a process in which sensors assess the current (and predict the future) state of a structure in terms of its aging and deterioration to assure users or operators of its safety and performance. In addition to preventing failures, SHM extends aircra...

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Published in:IEEE intelligent systems Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 22 - 29
Main Authors: Ruotsalainen, Marja, Jylha, Juha, Visa, Ari
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.07.2016
Subjects:
Aerospace electronics
Aging aircraft
Aircraft
Aircraft components
applications and expert knowledge-intensive systems
Artificial intelligence
computing methodologies
decision support
Economics
engineering
evolutionary computing and genetic algorithms
Fatigue failure
Genetic algorithms
intelligent systems
machine learning
Military aircraft
Monitoring
pattern recognition
Structural engineering
Structural health monitoring
Wireless sensor networks
ISSN:1541-1672, 1941-1294
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Summary:Aircraft structural health monitoring (SHM) refers to a process in which sensors assess the current (and predict the future) state of a structure in terms of its aging and deterioration to assure users or operators of its safety and performance. In addition to preventing failures, SHM extends aircraft life cycles. Consequently, adopting SHM is strongly motivated not only by flight safety but also by economic considerations. This article focuses on the optimization of aircraft usage as a new aspect of SHM and discusses a knowledge discovery approach based on dynamic time warping and genetic programming. In addition, it points out some of the challenges faced in applying artificial intelligence to aircraft SHM. This novel work reveals that AI provides a means to gain valuable knowledge for decision making on cost-efficient future usage of an aircraft fleet.
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ISSN:1541-1672
1941-1294
DOI:10.1109/MIS.2016.23