System Health Management: with Aerospace Applications
provides the first complete reference text for System Health
Management (SHM), the set of technologies and processes used to
improve system dependability. Edited by a team of engineers and
consultants with SHM design, development, and research experience
from NASA, industry, and academia, each heading up sections in
their own areas of expertise and co-coordinating contributions from
leading experts, the book collates tog...
System Health Management: with Aerospace Applications
provides the first complete reference text for System Health
Management (SHM), the set of technologies and processes used to
improve system dependability. Edited by a team of engineers and
consultants with SHM design, development, and research experience
from NASA, industry, and academia, each heading up sections in
their own areas of expertise and co-coordinating contributions from
leading experts, the book collates together in one text the
state-of-the-art in SHM research, technology, and applications. It
has been written primarily as a reference text for practitioners,
for those in related disciplines, and for graduate students in
aerospace or systems engineering.
There are many technologies involved in SHM and no single person
can be an expert in all aspects of the discipline.System
Health Management: with Aerospace Applications provides an
introduction to the major technologies, issues, and references in
these disparate but related SHM areas. Since SHM has evolved most
rapidly in aerospace, the various applications described in this
book are taken primarily from the aerospace industry. However, the
theories, techniques, and technologies discussed are applicable to
many engineering disciplines and application areas.
Readers will find sections on the basic theories and concepts of
SHM, how it is applied in the system life cycle (architecture,
design, verification and validation, etc.), the most important
methods used (reliability, quality assurance, diagnostics,
prognostics, etc.), and how SHM is applied in operations
(commercial aircraft, launch operations, logistics, etc.), to
subsystems (electrical power, structures, flight controls, etc.)
and to system applications (robotic spacecraft, tactical missiles,
rotorcraft, etc.).