A Kalman filter-based approach for integrated on-line aircraft engine performance estimation and gas path fault diagnostics is presented. This technique is specifically designed for underdetermined estimation problems where there are more unknown system parameters representing deterioration and faults than available sensor measurements. A previously developed methodology is applied to optimally...

Multiple Fault Diagnosis (MFD) is the process of determining the correct fault or faults that are responsible for a given set of symptoms. MFD problems are generally characterized by problem-spaces containing many local minima and maxima. We show that when using Genetic Algorithms to solve these kinds of problems, best results can be achieved with higher than \normal" mutation rates. Schemata t...

in this paper, the behaviour of buried pipelines under the effect of propagation of seismic waves and faulting is studied seperately. the stability of this type of structure was first studied by using three different methods proposed by newmark-hall, kenndey et al. and wang - yeh under the effect of ground faulting. by parametric study, the effect of soil types, size of pipeline, depth of embed...

fault tolerance is one of the important issues in industries, such as transportation, military, chemical and nuclear sectors. reliability and safety are two vital attributes of fault tolerant systems, and redundancy is a common way to improve these parameters. this article studies the impact of including cold standby spares in system architecture. to do this, it uses the markov model of the sys...

Directed hypergraphs are used to model networks whose nodes are connected by directed buses. We study in this paper two parameters related to the fault-tolerance of directed bus networks: the connectivity and the fault-diameter of directed hypergraphs. Some bounds are given for those parameters. As a consequence, we obtain that de Bruijn-Kautz directed hypergraphs and, more generally, iterated ...

The main objective of this study is estimating acceleration time history of 16 September 1978 Tabas earthquake incorporating the seismological/geological source-path and site model parameters by using finite-fault simulation approach. The method generalizes the stochastic ground-motion simulation technique, developed for point sources, to the case of finite faults. It subdivides the fault plane...

Piston scuffing is one of the destructive faults in internal combustion (IC) engines. There are different causes to make this fault that lack of lubricant is the most important one among them. The purpose of this paper is the quantitative study of the piston scuffing effects on the engine performance parameters which is a new research direction in the IC engine filed. For this reason, several e...

A model-based fault detection algorithm for linear systems with uncertain parameters is treated. An error system, bilinear in the uncertainties, generates the residual. The residual is compared to a threshold, which is generated by a linear system with the unknown uncertainty upper bounds as parameters. These unknown uncertainty upper bounds can be substituted by design parameters and this arti...

A fault diagnosis method for sensor fault based on ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) energy entropy and optimized structural parameters least squares support vector machine (LSSVM) is put forward in this paper. Firstly, the original output fault signals are pretreatment with EEMD, and then the EEMD energy entropy is extracted as the fault feature vector. Then the radial basis functio...