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Tim Hoff, Florian Becker, Alireza Dadashi, Kai Wicke and Gerko Wende
Hydrogen is one of the most promising power sources for meeting the aviation sector?s long-term decarbonization goals. Although on-board hydrogen systems, namely, fuel cells, are extensively researched, the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) perspect...
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Mohammed Baz
The aviation industry is one of the fastest-growing sectors and is crucial for both passenger transport and logistics. However, the high costs associated with maintenance, refurbishment, and overhaul (MRO) constitute one of the biggest challenges facing ...
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Lars M. Heijenrath and Wim J. C. Verhagen
Accurate estimation of spare part demand is challenging in the case of intermittent or lumpy demand, characterised by infrequent demand occurrence and variability in demand size. While prior research has considered the effect of exogenous variables on sp...
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Jonas Aust and Dirk Pons
Background?Aircraft inspection is crucial for safe flight operations and is predominantly performed by human operators, who are unreliable, inconsistent, subjective, and prone to err. Thus, advanced technologies offer the potential to overcome those limi...
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Jonas Aust, Dirk Pons and Antonija Mitrovic
Background?There are various influence factors that affect visual inspection of aircraft engine blades including type of inspection, defect type, severity level, blade perspective and background colour. The effect of those factors on the inspection perfo...
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Florian Heilemann, Alireza Dadashi and Kai Wicke
In this research article, a novel endoscopic system, which is suited to perform a digital inspection of the aircraft wing fuel tanks, is introduced. The aim of this work is to specifically design and develop an assisting system, called `Eeloscope?, to al...
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Jonas Aust and Dirk Pons
Risk assessment methods are widely used in aviation, but have not been demonstrated for visual inspection of aircraft engine components. The complexity in this field arises from the variety of defect types and the different manifestation thereof with eac...
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Jonas Aust, Sam Shankland, Dirk Pons, Ramakrishnan Mukundan and Antonija Mitrovic
Background?In the field of aviation, maintenance and inspections of engines are vitally important in ensuring the safe functionality of fault-free aircrafts. There is value in exploring automated defect detection systems that can assist in this process. ...
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Jonas Aust and Dirk Pons
Background?Bowtie analysis is a broadly used tool in risk management to identify root causes and consequences of hazards and show barriers that can prevent or mitigate the events to happen. Limitations of the method are reliance on judgement and an ad ho...
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Jonas Aust and Dirk Pons
Context?The maintenance of aero engines is intricate, time-consuming, costly and has significant functional and safety implications. Engine blades and vanes are the most rejected parts during engine maintenance. Consequently, there is an ongoing need for...
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