Reliability and structural inspection program for transport aeroplanes.

An Optimized Lifetime Reliability-based Inspection Program for Deteriorating Structures

No matter how well they are designed, all civil engineering structures will deteriorate over time and a program of lifetime inspection, maintenance and repair represents a substantial portion of the total lifetime cost of most structures. An optimized inspection program is the key to making appropriate repairs at the right time to minimize cost and maintain an appropriate level of safety in a s...

Code Inspection Approaches for Program Visualization

The aim of this paper is to show the approaches involved in the implementation of two tools of PCVIA project that can be used for Program Comprehension. Both tools use known compiler techniques to inspect code in order to visualize and understand programs’ execution but one of them modifies the source code and the other not. In the non-invasive approach, we convert the source program into an in...

ENHANCING WEIGHTED UNIFORM SIMULATION FOR STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY ANALYSIS

Weighted Uniform Simulation (WUS) is recently presented as one of the efficient simulation methods to obtain structural failure probability and most probable point (MPP). This method requires initial assumptions of failure probability to obtain results. Besides, it has the problem of variation in results when it conducted with few samples. In the present study three strategies have been present...

Thermal Imaging for Enhancing Inspection Reliability: Detection and Characterization

Risk based inspection planning for structural systems

Risk based inspection (RBI) planning for engineering systems is considered. Due to difficulties in formulating computationally tractable approaches for RBI for systems, most procedures hitherto have focused exclusively on individual components or have considered system effects in a very simplified manner only. Several studies have pointed to the importance of taking systems effect into account ...