Effective availability simulation evaluation research on complex ship system

Author

Zhicheng Chen ; Lu Yao ; Jianjun Yang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Manage. Eng., Naval Univ. of Eng., Wuhan, China

fYear

2013

fDate

15-18 July 2013

Firstpage

1271

Lastpage

1273

Abstract

Compared to general availability conceptions, effective availability could reflect the influence of repairable fault, unrepairable fault, and initiative repair on ship usage. By analyzing effective availability empirical formula, the important parameters, say MTBCF/MART and Missiontime/MTTCFnr, were found via simulation. The effective availability simulation models were built based on ExtendSim. The mission effective availability parameters were provided by simulation and the problem of effective availability simulation evaluation on ship system was settled and a case study is presented to show the validity of the proposed method.

Keywords

failure analysis; maintenance engineering; reliability; ships; simulation; ExtendSim; MTBCF MART; Missiontime MTTCFnr; effective availability simulation evaluation; initiative repair; mean active repair time; mean time between critical failures; ship usage; unrepairable fault; Analytical models; Availability; Computational modeling; Marine vehicles; Preventive maintenance; ExtendSim; effective availability; ship system; simulation evaluation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1014-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QR2MSE.2013.6625800

Filename

6625800