Unit I
Unit I
Unit I
Reliability:
Designer strives to make systems as reliable as possible.
High reliability less maintenance costs.
If less reliable customer will not buy it and in terms of civil
airlines the certificating agencies will not certify it.
Maintainability:
Closely related to reliability
System must need preventive or corrective maintenance.
System can be maintained through built in testing, automated
troubleshooting and easy access to hardware.
Availability:
Combination of reliability and maintainability
Trade of between reliability and maintainability to optimize
availability.
Availability translates into sorties for military aircraft and into
revenue flights for civil aircrafts.
Certificability:
Major area of concern for avionics in civil airlines.
Certification conducted by the regulatory agencies based on
detailed, expert examination of all facets of aircraft design and
operation.
The avionics architecture should be straight forward and easily
understandable.
There should be no sneak circuits and no noobvious modes of
operation.
Avionics certification focus on three analyses: preliminary
hazard, fault tree, and FMEA.
Survivability:
It is a function of susceptibility and vulnerability.
Susceptibility: measure of probability that an aircraft will
be hit by a given threat.
Vulnerability: measure of the probability that damage will
occur if there is a hit by the threat