Failure environment analysis system-MSFC an enhanced tool forhardware reliability in design
Knight, K.; Christenson, R.
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. 1997 Proceedings, Annual
Volume , Issue , 13-16 Jan 1997 Page(s):211 - 215
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/RAMS.1997.571709
Summary:At the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Propulsion Lab the need
for reliability in design engineering became increasingly important in
the early days of the National Launch System (NLS). This need has become
significantly more important in subsequent programs. During NLS
development, most of the available methods and tools were either
inadequate for the required analyses, required the use of multiple tools
for a single analysis, and/or were inappropriate for use by design
engineers. It was quite apparent that reliability analysis tools were
not keeping pace with other design tools such as CAD/CAE, finite element
analysis, computational fluid dynamics or thermal analysis. In addition,
the existing reliability analysis tools did not have an interface with
any of the other design tools. For these reasons, the need for new
methods and tools for conducting reliability analysis was realized. This
led the Propulsion Lab to initiate the enhancement of an existing
software package to meet their requirements. The results of these
enhancement efforts to date represent the Failure Environment Analysis
System-MSFC (FEAS-M) software
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