Adaptive Residual Useful Life Estimation of a Structural Hotspot

作者：Mohanty Subhasish^*; Chattopadhyay Aditi; Peralta Pedro

来源：Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 2010, 21(3): 321-335.

DOI：10.1177/1045389X09357972

• adaptive prognosis
• fatigue crack growth
• 2024-T351 aluminum alloy
• Bayesian inference
• Gaussian process
• on-line state estimation
• off-line state prediction
• condition-based residual useful life estimate

In conventional approaches to life prognosis, damage tolerance and fatigue life predictions are obtained based on assumed structural flaws, regardless of whether they actually occur in service. Consequently, a large degree of conservatism is incorporated into structural designs due to these uncertainties. In a real time environment, keeping track of the damage growth in a complex structural component manually is quite difficult and requires automatic damage state estimation. The current research on structural health monitoring (or on-line damage state estimation) techniques offers condition-based damage state prediction and corresponding residual useful life assessment. The real-time damage state information from an on-line state estimation model can be regularly fed to a predictive model to update the residual useful life estimation in the event of a new prevailing situation. This article discusses the use of an adaptive prognosis procedure, which integrates an on-line state estimation algorithm with an off-line predictive algorithm to estimate the condition-based residual useful life of structural hotspots such as a lug joint.

• 出版日期2010-2