Analytical Method for Mapping Function to Failure during High-risk Component Development
Abstract
Communicating failure mode information during design and manufacturing is a crucial task for failure prevention. Most processes use Failure Modes and Effects types of analyses, as well as prior knowledge and experience, to determine the potential modes of failures a product might encounter during its lifetime. When new products are being considered and designed, this knowledge and information is expanded upon to help designers extrapolate based on their similarity with existing products and the potential design tradeoffs. This paper makes use of similarities and tradeoffs that exist between different failure modes based on the functionality of each component/product. In this light, a function-failure method is developed to help the design of new products with solutions for functions that eliminate or reduce the potential of a failure mode. The method is applied to a simplified rotating machinery example in this paper, and is proposed as a means to account for helicopter failure modes during design and production, addressing stringent safety and performance requirements for NASA applications.
Recommended Citation
I. Y. Tumer and R. B. Stone, "Analytical Method for Mapping Function to Failure during High-risk Component Development," Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, vol. 3, pp. 129 - 139, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Dec 2001.
Department(s)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Article - Conference proceedings
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Citation
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English
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Publication Date
01 Dec 2001
