A paired comparison experiment for gathering expert judgment for an aircraft wiring risk assessment

Thomas A. Mazzuchi, William G. Linzey and Armin Bruning

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2008, vol. 93, issue 5, 722-731

Abstract: Wire failure in aircraft can be attributed to several factors and the assessment of the risk of wire failure is becoming an increasingly important task. This paper will discuss the results of an actual experiment to use the paired-comparison technique for expert judgment to develop a relationship for the probability of wire failure as a function of influencing factors in an aircraft environment. The reasons for using this technique are two-fold. First, the failure probability depends on many variables including wire gauge, vibration, environmental condition, etc. In addition, the wire failure data are sparse and fitting these data to a complex failure function is a nontrivial task that may involve a host of assumptions that may not be provable.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2007.03.011

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