- Patent Title: Probabilistic load and damage modeling for fatigue life management
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Application No.: US15095313Application Date: 2016-04-11
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Publication No.: US10311202B2Publication Date: 2019-06-04
- Inventor: Sam Dekker , Georg Wurzel
- Applicant: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GmbH
- Applicant Address: DE Donauworth
- Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
- Current Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
- Current Assignee Address: DE Donauworth
- Agency: Brooks Kushman P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F17/50
- IPC: G06F17/50 ; G06N20/00 ; G06F13/00

Abstract:
A fatigue life management system for determining a remaining fatigue life of a component of an aircraft. The fatigue life management system may generate probability density functions of minimum load, maximum load, and timeframe damage for predetermined time intervals based on selected flight data of the aircraft and regression models for probabilistic prediction of minimum load, maximum load, and timeframe damage of the component. The fatigue life management system may further compute an accumulated fatigue damage estimation based on the probability density functions and a probabilistic fatigue strength model. The fatigue life management system may then generate a distribution of the accumulated fatigue damage estimation of the component. If desired, the processing circuit may compare the distribution of the accumulated fatigue damage estimation with a reliability requirement to determine the remaining fatigue life of the component.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170293712A1 PROBABILISTIC LOAD AND DAMAGE MODELING FOR FATIGUE LIFE MANAGEMENT Public/Granted day:2017-10-12
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