Aircraft Engine Life-Consumption Monitoring for Real-Time Reliability Determination, Phase II

NASA GRC is currently pursuing an overall agency-wide goal to increase flight safety of commercial aircraft as part of the NASA Aviation Safety program. In pursuit of that goal, analytical life prediction codes currently used to predict the service life of aircraft engines are being investigated, so that, NASA GRC can establish appropriate programmatic plans to address the deficiencies that now exist in those methods and approaches. By addressing these deficiencies, NASA and industry can cooperatively achieve the increased flight safety goals through a better understanding of the service life of aircraft engines. This effort will provide industry a mechanism to improve the safety, reliability and maintainability of commercial aircraft. It will affect cost-effective design and manufacturing for new production engines and can reduce life cycle and maintenance costs. NASA GRC is currently pursuing an overall agency-wide goal of increasing the flight safety of commercial aircraft. This is part of the NASA Aviation Safety Program. In pursuit of that goal, the analytical life prediction codes that are currently used to predict the service life of aircraft engines are being investigated; so that, NASA GRC can establish appropriate programmatic plans to address the deficiencies that now exist in those methods and approaches. By addressing these deficiencies, NASA and industry can cooperatively achieve the increase flight safety goals through a better understanding of the service life of aircraft engines. Our SBIR effort will provide NASA and industry a mechanism to improve the safety, reliability and maintainability of commercial aircraft. It will improve the cost-effective design and manufacturing of new production engines. More »