Reusable rocket engine preventive maintenance scheduling using genetic algorithm

Tao Chen, Jiawen Li, Ping Jin and Guobiao Cai

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2013, vol. 114, issue C, 52-60

Abstract: This paper deals with the preventive maintenance (PM) scheduling problem of reusable rocket engine (RRE), which is different from the ordinary repairable systems, by genetic algorithm. Three types of PM activities for RRE are considered and modeled by introducing the concept of effective age. The impacts of PM on all subsystems' aging processes are evaluated based on improvement factor model. Then the reliability of engine is formulated by considering the accumulated time effect. After that, optimization model subjected to reliability constraint is developed for RRE PM scheduling at fixed interval. The optimal PM combination is obtained by minimizing the total cost in the whole life cycle for a supposed engine. Numerical investigations indicate that the subsystem's intrinsic reliability characteristic and the improvement factor of maintain operations are the most important parameters in RRE's PM scheduling management.

Keywords: Reusable rocket engine; Preventive maintenance; Effective age; Reliability; Cost; Genetic algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2012.12.020

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