An extension to Fuzzy Developed Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FDFMEA) application for aircraft landing system

Adesina³

2020

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Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is a safety and reliability technique that is widely used to evaluate, design, and process a system against diverse possible ways through which the potential failure has a tendency to occur. In conventional FMEA, the risk evaluation is determined by risk priority number (RPN) obtained by multiplying of three risk factors—severity, occurrence, and detection. However, because of many shortages in conventional FMEA, the RPN scores have been widely criticized along issues bothering on ambiguity and vagueness, scoring, appraising, evaluating, and selecting corrective actions. In this paper, we propose a new integrated fuzzy smart FMEA framework where the combination of fuzzy set theory, analytical hierarchy process (AHP), and data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used, respectively, to handle uncertainty and to increase the reliability of the risk assessment. These are achieved by employing a heterogeneous group of experts and determining the efficiency of FMEA mode with adequate priority and corrective actions using RPN, time, and cost as indicators. A numerical example (aircraft landing system) is provided to exemplify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed model. The outputs of the proposed model compared with the conventional risk assessment technique results show its effectiveness, reliability, and propensity for real applications.

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Fuzzy smart failure modes and effects analysis to improve safety performance of system: Case study of an aircraft landing system

Daneshvar

Adesina³

2020

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“…Xu and Liao discussed that it is time‐consuming procedure, and sometimes the experts do not have enough motivation and lack interest to participate in this process with the tedious supervision. However, many scholars illustrate that using an interactive way has enough merits over the other methods …”

Section: Developed Methodsologymentioning

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Introducing a heuristic approach to enhance the reliability of system safety assessment

2019

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Probabilistic risk assessment techniques are the important tools which can considerably improve the safety performance of the studied system and reduce the risk to an acceptable level. Typically, decision‐making process is an important part of risk assessment methods that accordingly bring the ambiguity inside. Decision makers as experts commonly express their subjective opinions about the occurrence of the root events in order to obtain the probability of the undesired event. Subsequently, the critical root events are identified, and possible intervention is performed to reduce the probability of the critical events. However, the serious point is the viability of the obtained probabilities and priority ranking of the critical events. In this study, a heuristic optimization model of linear mathematical programming using triangular intuitionistic fuzzy number (TrIFN) is proposed to obtain the feasible, optimum, and reliable results compared with available methods. The Spearman correlation is performed to examine the reliability and behavior of the proposed model. In order to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach, it is applied on a real case study. The application of the model confirms its robustness to prioritize critical root events over the conventional one.

“…Therefore, considering all possible opinions, a group of heterogeneous specialists can have privilege over the homogeneous group. Moreover, the weights of experts are different, so in real life, the heterogeneous group is more realistic . The criteria for the recognition of experts are established as follows; firstly, the period of learning and experience in the precise scope of knowledge.…”

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confidence: 99%

Footprint of knowledge acquisition improvement in failure diagnosis analysis

2018

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Fault tree analysis (FTA) as an effective and efficient risk assessment tool are widely used to analyze the reliability of a complex system. In this context, FTA can properly improve the safety performance of the system by preventing an event which may lead to occurrence of a catastrophic accident. However, traditional FTA is still suffering from dynamic structure demonstration and importantly epistemic uncertainty processing. In this study, a novel methodology is introduced using Bayesian updating mechanism to deal with dynamic structure and 2‐tuple fuzzy set named as intuitionistic fuzzy numbers are employed to cope with subjectivity of uncertainty processing. Accordingly, the most critical system components which affect the system reliability are recognized by using an appropriate sensitivity analysis method. The proposed methodology is then applied on a real case study application (a brake fluid filling system) in order to examine the effectiveness and feasibility of the approach. The results illustrated that the new methodology can have enough benefits for diagnosing the systems' faults compared with listing approaches of safety and reliability analysis. In terms of empirical case study, “electromotor failure” was evaluated as the second most critical basic event in conventional‐based approaches, whereas in the novel methodology “high pressure liquefied material” was recognized as the second one.