Reliability evaluation of airport power systems under operative constraints

Author

Grasselli, U. ; Terramano, S. ; Ricci, B.

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Rome Univ. "La Sapienza"

fYear

2006

fDate

23-26 May 2006

Firstpage

852

Lastpage

856

Abstract

Final approach and landing are for an airplane the most critical phases, statistically speaking, with respect to accidents. ICAO gives functional requirements about airport power systems, in order to guarantee continuity and integrity of service for airport lights and radio aids. This paper deals with a new method to analyze and evaluate reliability of the above airport power systems in order to compare the reliability indexes with those imposed by ICAOs regulations, in all the operative environments. This method relies extensively on direct Monte Carlo numerical simulations and uses analytical solutions to validate the results

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; airports; power system reliability; safety; ICAO; airplane; airport lights; airport power systems; direct Monte Carlo numerical simulations; final approach; landing; reliability evaluation; reliability indexes; Aerospace safety; Air safety; Airports; Electrical safety; Performance evaluation; Power system reliability; Reliability theory; Testing; Uninterruptible power systems; Wiring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion, 2006. SPEEDAM 2006. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Taormina

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0193-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPEEDAM.2006.1649888

Filename

1649888