Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Challenges of Modern Developing Commercial Aircraft 1.2 Evolution of Aircraft Maintenance Process 1.3 Aircraft Composite Structures 1.4 Reliability-Centered Maintenance 1.4.1 Reliability Design 1.4.2 Reliability Centered Maintenance 1.5 MSG-3 Structural Analysis 1.6 A380 Maintenance Programs 1.7 Summary Chapter 2 Basic Concept 2.1 Accident 2.1.1 Accident in Aviation 2.1.2 Accident Category in Aviation 2.2 Near Misses 2.3 Risk 2.4 Safety 2.5 Reliability 2.6 Risk Management 2.7 Incident 2.8 Airworthiness 2.9 Quality 2.10 Airworthiness 2.11 Availability 2.12 Aircraft Maintenance 2.13 Sources and Types of Failure in Aircraft 2.13.1 Mechanisms of Failure 2.13.2 Causes of Failure 2.13.3 Sources of Failure 2.14 Maintenance System and Tasks 2.15 Component Servicings 2.16 Overhaul 2.17 Bay Servicing 2.17.1 Repair 2.17.2 Modification 2.18 Replacement/Throwaway 2.19 Functional Testing 2.20 Calibration 2.21 Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) 2.22 Avionics Maintenance 2.23 Software Maintenance 2.24 Interdependence of Operations and Maintenance 2.24. 1 Factors Affecting the Airline's Maintenance System 2.24. 2 Factors Affecting the Military Maintenance System Chapter Aircraft Reliability and Maintainability Analysis and Design 3.1 Reliability Fundamental Mathematics 3.1 1 Density Function 3.1 2 Failure Probability Function 3.1 3 Failure Rate 3.1 4 Reliability Function 3.1 5 Bathtub Curve 3.1 6 Mean Time to Failure 3.2 Some Common Failure Distributions 3.2.1 Exponential Distribution 3.2.2 Weibull Distribution 3.2.3 Normal Distribution 3.2.4 Lognormal Distribution 3.2.5 Summary of Often Used Distributions 3.3 Binary System Reliability Models 3.3.1 Series System 3.3.2 Parallel System 3.3.3 Standby Redundancy System 3.4 Mechanical Reliability~Stress-strength Interference Model 3.4.1 Introduction of Theory 3.4.2 Analytical Results 3.4.3 Example 3.5 Fuzzy Reliability Theory 3.5.1 Irrationality of Conventional Reliability Theory 3.5.2 Fuzzy Reliability Basic Theories 3.5.3 Fuzzy Reliability 3.5.4 Fuzzy Failure Rate 3.5.5 Fuzzy MTBF …… Chapter 4 RCM and Intergrated Logistic Support Chapter 5 Intelligent Structural Rating System Based on Back Propagation Network Chapter 6 Fault Tree Analysis for Composite Structural Damage Chapter 7 Inspection Interval Optimization for Aircraft Composite Structures Considering Dent Damage Chapter 8 Repair Tolerance for Composite Structures Using Probabilistic Methodologies Chapter 9 Structural Health Monitoring and Influence on Current Maintenance Chapter 10 Maintenance Control and Management Optimization Chapter 11 Methodologies of Reliability and Maintainability in the A380 Program Reference Index