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Reliability Estimation of Liquid Rocket Engine Using Crow-AMSAA Model

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Reliability is a most critical system requirement and plays a vital role in space systems where risks associated with failure are very high, and hence, quantifying reliability becomes important. Liquid rocket engines (LREs) are an integral part of any space transportation system. Through rigorous hot testing and developmental flights, LREs are flight qualified during the initial phases. Once the LRE becomes operational, the reliability further grows as the system matures. In this paper, reliability growth is estimated for two sets of data, one with all flight engines for a particular LRE (LRE-1) and the other with flight as well as ground test data for a particular variant (LRE-2), using Crow-AMSAA model, and the values are compared using traditional binomial distribution methods at 60% confidence level (CL).

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Acknowledgements

Authors sincerely acknowledge the constant guidance and motivation by Dr. G. Jeganlal, Deputy Director, SRQA, LPSC. The authors are deeply grateful to the LPSC community who were involved directly or indirectly in the successful completion of the study.

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  1. ISRO-Liquid Propulsion Systems Center, Thiruvananthapuram, 695547, India

    Chuna Ram, Rajeev R. Krishnan, V. Siju, V. Ganapathy Subramanian & S. Prasad

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  1. Department of Polymer and Process Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

    Gaurav Manik

  2. Department of Chemistry, Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

    Susheel Kalia

  3. Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India

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Ram, C., Krishnan, R.R., Siju, V., Ganapathy Subramanian, V., Prasad, S. (2023). Reliability Estimation of Liquid Rocket Engine Using Crow-AMSAA Model. In: Manik, G., Kalia, S., Verma, O.P., Sharma, T.K. (eds) Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2188-9_12

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