Mechanistic-based Design-Integrated Reliability Validation Framework for Mechanical Systems

dc.contributor.advisorModarres, Mohammaden_US
dc.contributor.authorYousif, Omer Hassan Awaden_US
dc.contributor.departmentReliability Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-18T05:56:02Z
dc.date.available2015-09-18T05:56:02Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractNew product design challenges, related to customer needs, product usage and environments, face companies when they expand their product offerings to new markets; Some of the main challenges are: the lack of quantifiable information, product experience and field data. Designing reliable products under such challenges requires flexible reliability assessment processes that can capture the variables and parameters affecting the product overall reliability and allow different design scenarios to be assessed. These challenges also suggest a mechanistic (Physics of Failure-PoF) reliability approach would be a suitable framework to be used for reliability assessment. Mechanistic Reliability recognizes the primary factors affecting design reliability. This research views the designed entity as a “system of components required to deliver specific operations”; it addresses the above mentioned challenges by; Firstly: developing a design synthesis that allows a descriptive operations/ system components relationships to be realized; Secondly: developing component’s mathematical damage models that evaluate components Time to Failure (TTF) distributions given: 1) the descriptive design model, 2) customer usage knowledge and 3) design material properties; Lastly: developing a procedure that integrates components’ damage models to assess the mechanical system’s reliability over time. Analytical and numerical simulation models were developed to capture the relationships between operations and components, the mathematical damage models and the assessment of system’s reliability. The process was able to affect the design form during the conceptual design phase by providing stress goals to meet component’s reliability target. The process was able to numerically assess the reliability of a system based on component’s mechanistic TTF distributions, besides affecting the design of the component during the design embodiment phase. The process was used to assess the reliability of an internal combustion engine manifold during design phase; results were compared to reliability field data and found to produce conservative reliability results. The research focused on mechanical systems, affected by independent mechanical failure mechanisms that are influenced by the design process. Assembly and manufacturing stresses and defects’ influences are not a focus of this research.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2XD1J
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/17064
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSystems scienceen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMechanical engineeringen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledDesignen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDesign Synthesisen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMechanical Systemen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMechanistic Reliabilityen_US
dc.titleMechanistic-based Design-Integrated Reliability Validation Framework for Mechanical Systemsen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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