Assessment of diagnostic and prognostic condition indices for efficient and robust maintenance decision-making of systems subject to stress corrosion cracking

Khac Tuan Huynh (1) , Antoine Grall (1) , Christophe Bérenguer (2)

1 LM2S - Laboratoire Modélisation et Sûreté des Systèmes
2 GIPSA-SAIGA - GIPSA - Signal et Automatique pour la surveillance, le diagnostic et la biomécanique

Seeking condition indices characterizing the health state of a system is a key problem in condition-based maintenance. For this purpose, diagnostic and prognostic models have been unceasingly developed and improved over the past few decades; nevertheless none of them explains thoroughly the impacts of such indices on the effectiveness of maintenance operations. As a complement to these efforts, this paper analyzes the effectiveness of some well-known diagnostic and prognostic indices for maintenance decision-making. The study is based on a system subject to competing risks due to multiple crack paths. A periodic inspection scheme is used to monitor the system health state. Each inspection returns the perfect diagnostic information: the number of cracks, corresponding crack sizes, and the system failure/working state. Based on this information, two kinds of prognostic condition indices are predicted: the average value and probability law of the system residual useful life. The associated condition-based maintenance strategies and cost models are then developed and compared with the ones whose maintenance decisions are based on diagnostic condition indices. The comparison results allow us to conclude on the performance and on the robustness of these strategies, hence giving some suggestions on the choice of reliable condition indices for maintenance decision-making.

Mots clés: Condition-based maintenance; Diagnostic and prognostic condition index; Mathematical cost model; Residual useful life; Robust decision; Stress corrosion cracking

Domaines: Automatique / Robotique; Applications [stat.AP]

Khac Tuan Huynh, Antoine Grall, Christophe Bérenguer. Assessment of diagnostic and prognostic condition indices for efficient and robust maintenance decision-making of systems subject to stress corrosion cracking. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2017, 159, pp.237-254. ⟨10.1016/j.ress.2016.11.022⟩. ⟨hal-01411368⟩