Michal Kuchař | Searcharxiv

arXiv2025

AI-based Decision Support System for Heritage Aircraft Corrosion Prevention

The paper presents a decision support system for the long-term preservation of aeronautical heritage exhibited/stored in sheltered sites. The aeronautical heritage is characterized by diverse materials of which this heritage is constituted. Heritage aircraft are made of ancient aluminum alloys, (ply)wood, and particularly fabrics. The decision support system (DSS) designed, starting from a conceptual model, is knowledge-based on degradation/corrosion mechanisms of prevailing materials of aeronautical heritage. In the case of historical aircraft wooden parts, this knowledge base is filled in by the damage function models developed within former European projects. Model-based corrosion prediction is implemented within the new DSS for ancient aluminum alloys. The novelty of this DSS consists of supporting multi-material heritage protection and tailoring to peculiarities of aircraft exhibition/storage hangars and the needs of aviation museums. The novel DSS is tested on WWII aircraft heritage exhibited in the Aviation Museum Kbely, Military History Institute Prague, Czech Republic.

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arXiv2020

Localising the Smallest Stiffness and its Direction of a Homogeneous Structure by Spectral and Optimisation Approaches

Structural stiffness plays an important role in engineering design. The analysis of stiffness requires precise experiments and computational models that can be difficult or time-consuming to procure. A novel relation between modal and static stiffness based on modal decomposition is introduced in this study. This relation allows analysing the smallest structural stiffness and its direction. Further, it is shown that the smallest stiffness can be found using an optimisation algorithm that is based on the maximisation of structural compliance. Both approaches are compared on several computational examples leading to similar results in terms of smallest stiffness and its direction. The proposed approaches serve as quantitative/qualitative tools for the analyses of structural stiffness, particularly in structural health monitoring.

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