Deterioration Detection and Health Monitoring in Aircraft Jet Engines

In this paper the problem of jet engine deterioration detection and health monitoring is investigated by utilizing two methods. The first method is based on the fusion of the modified CUSUM (CUmulative SUM) method with the differential analysis approach. An enhanced differential analysis method is developed through which the degradation is captured from the unsymmetrical performance analysis of both engines on an aircraft. This is achieved by considering the effects of minor maintenance actions that are not reported. In the second approach, a statistical method based on the Hotelling’s T2-test approach is utilized to detect gradual degradations in the engine performance. The performance of our proposed approaches is evaluated by implementing them on a dual spool engine model that is developed by using the GSP software.Copyright © 2012 by ASME