Mechanical Reliability Prediction: A Different Approach

This paper critically analyses the current industry practices for making reliability prediction prevalent among the aircraft manufacturers and further explores the more accurate and cost effective methods for predicting the failure rate of a component or subsystem during the early design phase of the product development cycle namely NSWC method , PoF approach and SSI theory. It elucidates the effectiveness of these alternative approaches with the help of a case study on Hydraulic Accumulator (HYDAC).