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Optimum Preventive Maintenance Policies for the AMRAAM Missile | 
 enlarge | Publisher: Storming Media
Category: Book
Buy New: $36.95
Media: Spiral-bound
Pages: 134
ISBN: 1423563409
EAN: 9781423563402
ASIN: 1423563409
Publication Date: 1998
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Condition: Please note that this is a report or document and is not a book, per se. It is 134 pages long and is Velobound in a soft linen cover. This technical report was sponsored by the Pentagon and is provided in the best form available to the government. Sometimes our report quality is picture perfect and in color; other times, particularly for older reports, extensive black-and-white photocopying has degraded the quality. If you have any questions about quality of a particular report, please ask and we would be happy to describe it in more detail.
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Product Description
This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A671243. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: The overall objective of this research effort was to formulate a preventive maintenance strategy for AMRAAM missiles subject to extended captive carry flight time. A preventive maintenance policy is only applicable if the item in question is aging, or deteriorating with time. Therefore, a supporting objective of this research is to characterize the aging process of the missile system through a non-parametric analysis of its Mean Residual Life (MRL) function. Three non-parametric, censored-data MRL function estimation techniques discussed in the literature are examined via a numerical example. All three estimation techniques provide MRL functions that exhibit greatly exaggerated decreasing trends compared to the MRL function of the underlying distribution in the example. A semi-parametric technique for estimating the MRL function is developed that shows dramatic improvement over the non-parametric results. Although the MRL analysis of the current AMRAAM failure data failed to provide evidence that the missile system is aging, three preventive maintenance policies discussed in the literature are investigated. The traditional approach of preventive maintenance policy optimization via cost function minimization requires the cost of a system failure be explicitly known. However, the penalty for a system failure is often subjective and difficult to express in monetary terms. A "reliability cost model" is developed whereby system reliability for each policy is expressed as a function of cost.
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