Sandia report on flight control systems evaluation
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Jump to search filtersEvaluation of aged B737 & B747 single element dual load path (SE-DLP) flight control components
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A life cycle approach to the evaluation of commercial aircraft non-structural mechanical systems
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Evaluation of COTS wiring diagnostic systems
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Visual inspection results of selected Boeing 737 and 747 dual load path flight control components
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The role of lessons learned in the investigate, communicate, educate-cycle for commercial aviation
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Hybrid Safety Analysis Using Functional and Risk Decompositions
Safety analysis of complex systems depends on decomposing the systems into manageable subsystems, from which analysis can be rolled back up to the system level. The authors have found that there is no single best way to decompose; in fact hybrid combinations of decompositions are generally necessary to achieve optimum results. They are currently using two backbone coordinated decompositions--functional and risk, supplemented by other types, such as organizational. An objective is to derive metrics that can be used to efficiently and accurately aggregate information through analysis, to contribute toward assessing system safety, and to contribute information necessary for defensible decisions.
Identifying and modeling safety hazards
The hazard model described in this paper is designed to accept data over the Internet from distributed databases. A hazard object template is used to ensure that all necessary descriptors are collected for each object. Three methods for combining the data are compared and contrasted. Three methods are used for handling the three types of interactions between the hazard objects.
A system safety approach to the FAA surveillance process
As commercial air travel grows in terms of the number of passenger miles flown, there is expected to be a corresponding dramatic increase in the absolute number of accidents. This despite an enviable safety record and a very low accident rate. The political environment is such that an increase in the absolute number of accidents is not acceptable, with a stated goal of a factor of five reduction in the aviation fatal accident rate within ten years. The objective of this project is to develop an improved surveillance process that will provide measurements of the current state-of-health and predictions of future state of health of aircraft, operators, facilities, and personnel. Methodologies developed for nuclear weapon safety, in addition to more well known system safety and high-consequence engineering techniques, will be used in this approach.
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