Stochastic analysis of shock process and modeling of condition‐based maintenance

Stochastic analysis of shock process and modeling of condition‐based maintenance

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Article ID: iaor20133209
Volume: 96
Issue: 6
Start Page Number: 619
End Page Number: 626
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Journal: Reliability Engineering and System Safety
Authors: ,
Keywords: engineering
Abstract:

The paper presents an analytical formulation for evaluating the maintenance cost of engineering systems that are damaged by shocks arriving randomly in time. The damage process is nonlinear in a sense that damage increments form an increasing sequence (i.e., accelerated damage) or a decreasing sequence (saturated damage) of random increments. Such processes are motivated from damage data collected from nuclear reactor components. To model the nonlinear nature of damage process, the paper proposes the use of non‐homogeneous Poisson process for damage increments, which is in contrast with the common use of a renewal process for modeling the damage. The paper presents a conceptually clear and comprehensive derivation of formulas for computing the expected cost rate associated with a periodic inspection and preventive maintenance policy. Distinctions between the analysis of self‐announced and latent failures are highlighted. The analytical model presented in this paper is quite generic and versatile, and it can be applied to optimize other types of maintenance policies.

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