Predictive maintenance has been attracting researchers and industry in recent years, since maintenance and repair of assets is one of the most contributing factors of operating & support cost. Predictive maintenance proposes to maintain the assets only when necessary aiming to reduce the unnecessary repair and maintenance by monitoring the health of the assets. The expected time of the failure ...

This paper investigates the effects of preventive-maintenance cost functions on the optimal preventive-maintenance policy for a leased product with Weibull life-time distribution. During the lease period, any product failures are rectified by minimal repairs and may incur a penalty to the lessor, if the time duration for performing a minimal repair exceeds a pre-specified time limit. To reduce ...

The main concentration in the present paper is to analyze a singleunit system using the concepts of inspection, degradation, preventive maintenance, and server failure. A single repair facility inspect the original and degraded unit upon failure to check the feasibility of repair. The repair facility may fail during maintenance, repair and inspection and undergoes for treatment with Weibull pro...

A lifetime optimization methodology for planning the inspection and repair of structures that deteriorate over time is introduced and illustrated through numerical examples. The optimization is based on minimizing the expected total life-cycle cost while maintaining an allowable lifetime reliability for the structure. This method incorporates: (a) the quality of inspection techniques with diffe...

The yeast Mre11 protein participates in important cellular functions such as DNA repair and telomere maintenance. Analysis of structure-function relationships of Mre11 has led to identification of several separation-of-function mutations as well as N- and C-terminal domains essential for Mre11 meiotic and mitotic activities. Previous studies have established that there is a strong correlation b...

corrosion of steel reinforcement is one of the most prevalent causes of reinforced concrete (rc) structures deterioration in chloride-contaminated environments. as a result, evaluating the impact of any possible corrosion-induced damages to reinforced concrete bridges strongly affects management decisions: such as inspection, maintenance and repair actions. the corrosion propagation phase is a ...