Real-time radiography for electronics reliability assessment

1989 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Shenglei Du ◽  
Jingmei Guo ◽  
Lin Yi ◽  
Chen Zhang ◽  
Shi Liu

Abstract The high cost of operation and maintenance (O&M) management has become an important factor hindering the sustainable development of the wind power industry. Performing accurate condition assessment of wind turbine components to optimize the structural design and O&M strategy has become a research trend. However, the random and varying operating conditions of wind turbines make this problem difficult and challenging. A Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system collects signals that contain a large amount of raw and useful information from critical wind turbine sub-assemblies. Extracting key information from the SCADA data is an economical and effective way for condition assessment. A real-time reliability assessment method of wind turbine components using a Back-Propagation Neural Network (BPNN) and SCADA data is presented in this paper. The normal behavior models are established with the processed SCADA data, and the real-time reliability of wind turbine components are assessed based on the prediction result. For verification, the BPNN-based reliability assessment method is applied to a gearbox with real SCADA data of a 1.5MW onshore wind turbine located along the southeast coast of China. The results show the capability of the proposed model in assessing the reliability of wind turbine components continuously and in real time.


AIAA Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Pier Carlo Berri ◽  
Matteo D. L. Dalla Vedova ◽  
Laura Mainini

Author(s):  
Robert Bea ◽  
Charles Smith ◽  
Bob Smith ◽  
Johannes Rosenmoeller ◽  
Thomas Beuker ◽  
...  

In-line instrumentation information processing procedures have been developed and implemented to permit ‘real-time’ assessment of the reliability characteristics of marine pipelines. The objective of this work is to provide pipeline engineers, owners and operators with additional useful information that can help determine what should be done to help maintain pipelines. This paper describes the real-time RAM (reliability assessment and management) procedures that have been developed and verified with results from laboratory and field tests to determine the burst pressures of pipelines. These procedures address the detection and accuracy characteristics of results from in-line or ‘smart pig’ instrumentation, evaluation of the implications of non-detection, and the accuracy of alternative methods that can be used to evaluate the burst pressures of corroded and dented – gouged pipelines. In addition, processes are described have been developed to permit use of the information accumulated from in-line instrumentation (pipeline integrity information databases) to make evaluations of the burst pressure characteristics of pipelines that have not or can not be instrumented. Both of these processes are illustrated with applications to two example pipelines; one for which in-line instrumentation results are available and one for which such information is not available.


2020 ◽  
Vol 316 ◽  
pp. 02002
Author(s):  
Qing Zhen Gao ◽  
Li Hu Teng ◽  
Zhuo Jiang ◽  
Hua Zhang

According to the different performance degradation paths, reliability curves and parameters of each product in service phase, the reliability and remaining life of components at current moment can be evaluated in real-time reliability assessment by integrating real-time status, historical information and service time of components. The realtime reliability evaluation is valued because it is more personalized, precise, real-time and lean than traditional methods. Furthermore, the results from real-time reliability assessment can also represent the health status of component at current time. In the current research, real-time reliability assessment mainly relies on regression analysis and time series analysis, but these two methods are mainly used to describe the component degradation process, and cannot reflect the influence of external random environment on the component state change. At the same time, due to these limitations of time, economy and test conditions, it is also worth studying how to obtain more accurate and practical reliability distribution and determine a detection interval under the condition of less data. Therefore, based on the analysis of real-time reliability evaluation principle, a more appropriate real-time reliability evaluation method and the detection interval decision model are proposed by means of random degradation process, parameter sequence test joint distribution estimation and failure risk. The result from this method is a quantized value, which is convenient for the direct application of the follow-up maintenance decision research. Therefore, the research in this paper has extensive reference value and practical application prospect.


2016 ◽  
Vol 59 (8) ◽  
pp. 1294-1304 ◽  
Author(s):  
LiYe Zhang ◽  
LiMin Sun ◽  
ZhiQiang Shang

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