Application of the weibull proportional hazards model to aircraft and marine engine failure data

Abstract

Abstract The environment in which an equipment operates and associated diagnostic variables, such as metal particle level in engine oil, are factors that can influence an equipment's failure time. These factors can be incorporated into concomitant variable models such as the proportional hazards model (PHM), which has been widely used in medical research but not in engineering reliability. A Weibull PHM is applied to both aircraft engine failure data and marine gas turbine failure data. Examination of the residuals shows a good fit of the Weibull proportional hazards model to the data.