| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/N06021/01 |
| Title: |
CUSTOMER CORRELATED LIFE PREDICTION MODELS FOR IMPROVED DESIGN VERIFICATION OF AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Wright, Dr CS |
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| Department: |
Mechanical and Medical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Bradford |
| Scheme: |
LINK |
| Starts: |
25 September 2000 |
Ends: |
24 February 2004 |
Value (£): |
156,718
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Design & Testing Technology |
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| Transport Systems and Vehicles |
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The philosophy of the proposed approach is to establish a quantitative / analytical link between the degradation mechanism and the customer usage profile by using the concepts of condition parameters and explanatory variables.Condition parameters will be used to monitor the degradation process, and explanatory variables will be employed to quantify the influence of factors that have an effect on the life of the system. Degradation mechanisms will be analysed using qualitative and quantitative methods to identify the relevant condition parameters and the explanatory variables and their effects.The customer usage profiles will be established from road load data. This will be analysed to obtain typical values, trends and patterns of variation for the explanatory variables, which are specific to the usage profile: types of journeys / loads, driving style and environmental conditions.The project will investigate analytical models (stochastic, statistical, probabilistic and combination of these) suitable for modelling the degradation process and the life of the system, correlated with the patterns of variation of the usage profiles.Life tests and experiments will be carried out to calibrate and validate the models and the methodology.
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http://www.brad.ac.uk |