Reliability Based Aircraft Maintenance Optimization and Applications

Dr. Ren currently is the principle professor and acting chief engineer at Shanghai Aircraft Customer Service Centre of Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COAMC). He has had about 30 years aeronautical engineering working experience, during which he serviced as senior academic for RMIT University (Australia) for more than 12 years, a leading researcher in aerospace industries such as Defense Science and Technology Organization for 18 years, He was in senior manager position of Reliability and Airworthiness Department of Aircraft Design and Research Institute of China, and Aircraft R&D Centre (LA, USA). He is leading the Science and Technology innovation in customer service of COMAC. His major research areas focused on Aircraft Reliability, Safety, and Maintenance etc. Also, he is the advising member of SAE, and contributed to a number of international standards, such as ARP4754 and ARP4761 etc. He was honorably awarded a number of guest professor titles in many universities, such RMIT, NWPU, NUAA, Shanghai Jiaotong University etc. He has completed the supervision of more than 15 PhD student theses, and was invited as keynote speaker in many international conferences, such MRO, CE, AIAA. He is the fellowship of Royal Aeronautical Society and Engineer institute of Australia Dr. Xi Chen, a graduate PhD student from RMIT University, Australia, and postdoctoral fellowship in Shanghai Aircraft Customer Service Centre of COAMC. Professor, the chief designer of ARJ21 aircraft, and the fellow member of Science and Technology committee of COMAC

1. Introduction2. Basic Concepts3. Aircraft Reliability and Maintainability Analysis and Design4. RCM and Integrated Logistic Support5. Intelligent Structural Rating System Based on Back-Propagation Network6. Fault Tree Analysis for Composite Structural Damage7. Inspection Interval Optimization for Aircraft Composite Structures Considering Dent Damage8. Repair Tolerance for Composite Structures Using Probabilistic Methodologies9. Structural Health Monitoring and Influence on Current Maintenance10. Maintenance Control and Management Optimization11. The Methodologies of Reliability and Maintainability in the A380 Program