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A Study on Certification of Electronic Engine Controls (항공기 엔진제어시스템 인증기술 개발)

  • Lee, Kang-Yi;Han, Sang-Ho;Jin, Young-Kwon;Lee, Sang-Joon;Kim, Kui-Soon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.104-109
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    • 2005
  • The aircraft gas turbine engines with the Electronic Engine Controls(EEC) had been developed to save fuel and enhance their performance in the early days, and had employed the health monitoring function in the Full Authority Digital Engine Controls(FADEC) to improve their reliability. This has led to an increasing demand for the certification technology of these controls. The design and certification issues of power supply, aircraft supplied data, failure modes, software verification/validation, and lightning requirements need to be addressed. This paper presents the design considerations and the certification techniques applied to the electronic engine controls. And it is believed that this paper will be basis to establish a requirement in Korean Airworthiness Standard.

A Design of Risk-Based Security Threat Assessment Process for Fighter-Aircraft Airworthiness Security Certification (전투기 감항 보안 인증을 위한 위험기반 보안위협 평가 프로세스 설계)

  • Kim, Hyunju;Kang, Dongsu
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.223-234
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    • 2019
  • Cyber attacks are an important factor that determines the victory and defeat of Network-centric wars in which advanced weapon systems are highly interlinked. In addition the increasing dependability on software as its develop as the latest fighter is demanding enhanced security measures for fighter software to Cyber attacks. In this paper, we apply the DO-326A, which is an airworthiness security certification standard, to design a risk-based security threat assessment process by reflecting characteristics and operational environment of fighter aircraft. To do this, we add the following steps in security threat assessment stage of DO-326A's airworthiness security certification process. First, we derive security threats of fighter. And then, we scored the security threat in terms of possibility and impact on the fighter. Finally, we determine the security risk severity.

Application of Operational Experience of the Continuous Airworthiness Program at the stage of Aircraft Design and Certification (지속 감항성 유지 프로그램 운영 경험의 항공기 설계와 인증 단계 적용)

  • Koo, Min-Sung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.9-14
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    • 2013
  • Continuous airworthiness system is comprised of regulations and procedures to assure the safety and reliability through the total stage of development, certification and operation of aircraft. The purpose of this system is not only to provide the guidelines that should be kept by manufacturers and operators, but also to evaluate the maintenance capability in every activity of safety related procedures. During the development process of the mid and large size aircraft, operational experience should be reflected systematically for a safer and more reliable product by using the meaningful data base from operation. The relationship of safety roles between manufacturer and operator is mutually complementary, and the roles of each function have an influence to the next step. Overall structure of the procedure contains the concept of continuous analysis and feedback to achieve highest degree of safety and reliability during the entire life of aircraft. Finally, this paper describes how the feedback is made and used for aircraft design from operational experience under the continuous analysis and surveillance system.

Fielding a Structural Health Monitoring System on Legacy Military Aircraft: a Business Perspective

  • Bos, Marcel J.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.421-428
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    • 2015
  • An important trend in the sustainment of military aircraft is the transition from preventative maintenance to condition based maintenance (CBM). For CBM, it is essential that the actual system condition can be measured and the measured condition can be reliably extrapolated to a convenient moment in the future in order to facilitate the planning process while maintaining flight safety. Much research effort is currently being made for the development of technologies that enable CBM, including structural health monitoring (SHM) systems. Great progress has already been made in sensors, sensor networks, data acquisition, models and algorithms, data fusion/mining techniques, etc. However, the transition of these technologies into service is very slow. This is because business cases are difficult to define and the certification of the SHM systems is very challenging. This paper describes a possibility for fielding a SHM system on legacy military aircraft with a minimum amount of certification issues and with a good prospect of a positive return on investment. For appropriate areas in the airframe the application of SHM will reconcile the fail-safety and slow crack growth damage tolerance approaches that can be used for safeguarding the continuing airworthiness of these areas, combining the benefits of both approaches and eliminating the drawbacks.

A Study on the Certification System and Development Plan of Domestic Composite Material for Aircraft Use (항공기용 국산 복합재료 인증체계 및 발전방향에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Ilyoung
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.43-48
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    • 2015
  • This paper presents the systematic and procedural approaches to ensure the safety of the composite material domestically developed and produced, for its use in the structure of aeronautical product in accordance with the applicable international standard, and to enhance its creditability. Based on this approaches, this paper eventually proposes the practical future plan to encourage and expand the adoption of domestic composite material as part of aeronautical product by aircraft manufacturer in global market.

A Study on the Quality System Evaluation for Civil Aviation (민간항공분야 품질시스템 평가에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, You-Gwang;Park, Guen-Young;Lee, Kyung-Chul;Jin, Young-Kwon
    • Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.245-253
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    • 2008
  • Quality for civil aviation is very important to maintain the safety of aircraft and public, and strict quality requirements are prescribed in aviation regulations to ensure that each article produced conforms to the type design and is a condition for safe operation. In this study, the quality system requirements for aircraft and parts will be reviewed a concept of FAA's ACSEP(Aircraft Certification System Evaluation Program) and policy for aviation quality system evaluation in comparison with AS9100 for aviation quality management system.

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A Study on Improving Aircraft Maintenance Licensing System of South Korea for Mutual Recognition Between Countries

  • Oh, Kwon-suk;Lee, Hakbong;Yoo, Kwang-Eui
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.36-43
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to present the internationalization of South Korea's aircraft maintenance certificate for mutual recognition of aircraft maintenance license qualifications among various countries in preparation for an internationalization of the work conducted by the aviation industry. To achieve this objective, this study reviews the aircraft maintenance license training system and compares the standards for aircraft maintenance certification established by the Convention on International Civil Aviation with the standards for issuing domestic aircraft maintenance licenses. This comparative analysis shows that the domestic curriculum of aircraft maintenance licenses differs from international standards. As a result of this study, an improvement plan of the education content was proposed to enable the licensing qualifications of domestic aircraft maintenance licenses to be mutually recognized among different countries.

A Study on the Efficient Compliance Method for Airworthiness Certification in the field of Flying Qualities of Military Aircraft (군용항공기 비행성 분야의 효율적인 감항인증 입증방법에 대한 고찰)

  • Kang, Myungsoo;Kim, Chong-sup;Koh, GiOk;Lim, Sang-soo;Kim, Byoung soo
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.95-108
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    • 2022
  • Airworthiness certification is critical, in ensuring the flight safety of military aircraft for development tests and production operations. The MIL-HDBK-516C, latest airworthiness certification document, handles the field of flying qualities in Chapter 6 (flight technology), and refers to specific chapters of MIL-STD-1797B, which is the specification document for developing military aircraft. Since the MIL-STD-1797B released in 2006 by the U.S. Department of Defense is not disclosed to other countries, the Chapter 6 (flight technology) of MIL-HDBK-516B Expanded, the former certification standards pursuant to flying qualities, has to be applied to military aircraft being developed in the Republic of Korea. However the requirements of Chapter 6 of MIL-HDBK-516B Expanded comprise unclear sentences, because of contents from various development specifications. Also, clarification is needed in that the same requirements have to be verified in different criteria. In this paper, the results of this study present an effective verification method, for acquiring the airworthiness certification in field of flying qualities based on MIL-HDBK-516B Expanded.

A Study for the Airworthiness Certification Criteria and Compliance Related to the Flight Control Law (비행제어법칙 감항인증 기준 설정 및 입증 연구)

  • Koh, Gi Ok;Ko, Joon Soo;An, Young Gab
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.41 no.7
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    • pp.569-576
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    • 2013
  • The Airworthiness Certification from the government has an increasingly important role due to the dramatic growth of military aircraft development industry. It is a mandatory process of qualifying the flight safety within the aircraft's operational boundaries throughout its life cycle. The introduction of airworthiness certification has resulted in development paradigm shift from one requirement for one consumer need to the common requirement for many needs. This research paper provide the refinement of airworthiness certification criteria related to the flight control law and the verification methods which comply with its criteria.

Analysis for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Airworthiness Certification Criteria (소형 무인항공기 감항인증 기술기준 및 에너지 충돌기법 분석 연구)

  • Lim, Jun-Wan;Kim, Yong-Rae;Choi, Byung-Chul;Ko, Joon-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.65-74
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    • 2014
  • Unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs) refer to the aircraft which carries no human pilot and is operated under remote control or in autonomous operational mode. As the UAVs can perform the dull, dangerous and difficult missions, various kinds of UAVs with different sizes and weights have been developed and operated for both civil and military application. As the avionics and communication technology related to the UAVs are matured, the demand for the UAVs is dramatically increased. Therefore, It is important to develope airworthiness process and regulations of the UAVs to minimize related risk to the man and environment. This paper describes related regulations and classification of the small UAVs for different international airworthiness authorities. The analysis of the CS-LURS verses Stanag 4702 and Stanag 4703 can provide guidelines for the generation of the airworthiness certification criteria for the small UAVs in civil sector. This paper conducted kinetic impact energy analysis of the loss of the small UAVs control scenarios and of the very small UAVs under 66 joules. Based on the analysis, the energy impact analysis can be considered before the design certification approval for the small UAVs.