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Reliability analysis of direct drive electrohydraulic servo valves based on a wear degradation process and individual differences

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  • Yuan-Jian Yang
  • Weiwen Peng
  • Debiao Meng
  • Shun-Peng Zhu
  • Hong-Zhong Huang

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Electrohydraulic servo valves play critical roles in modern servo control systems, which require high reliability and high safety. The reliability analysis of a direct drive electrohydraulic servo valve is conducted in this article. First, the failure mechanism of the direct drive electrohydraulic servo valve is investigated by analyzing the structure and the working principle of the direct drive electrohydraulic servo valve. It shows that clamping stagnation, internal leakages and spring fatigue are the main failure modes of direct drive electrohydraulic servo valve. The structure degradation caused by wear enlarges the clearance and results in the increase in null leakages. Then, a gamma process is adopted to describe the internal structure degradation based on the failure mechanism analysis. Heterogeneity among different samples of direct drive electrohydraulic servo valves is studied and handled by introducing unit-specific random effects into the gamma process degradation model. Additionally, in this article, a Bayesian method is used to facilitate the degradation analysis and reliability estimation. The reliability models of sealing, springs and spool valves are presented. Finally, a brief introduction of the experiment of the direct drive electrohydraulic servo valves and an illustrative example of reliability analysis are presented to demonstrate the introduced failure mechanism analysis and the proposed reliability analysis method for direct drive electrohydraulic servo valves.

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  • Yuan-Jian Yang & Weiwen Peng & Debiao Meng & Shun-Peng Zhu & Hong-Zhong Huang, 2014. "Reliability analysis of direct drive electrohydraulic servo valves based on a wear degradation process and individual differences," Journal of Risk and Reliability, , vol. 228(6), pages 621-630, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:risrel:v:228:y:2014:i:6:p:621-630
    DOI: 10.1177/1748006X14541256
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    1. Che, Haiyang & Zeng, Shengkui & Guo, Jianbin & Wang, Yao, 2018. "Reliability modeling for dependent competing failure processes with mutually dependent degradation process and shock process," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 180(C), pages 168-178.
    2. Giorgio, Massimiliano & Pulcini, Gianpaolo, 2018. "A new state-dependent degradation process and related model misidentification problems," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 267(3), pages 1027-1038.
    3. Zhao, Xian & Wang, Siqi & Wang, Xiaoyue & Cai, Kui, 2018. "A multi-state shock model with mutative failure patterns," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 178(C), pages 1-11.
    4. Fan, Mengfei & Zeng, Zhiguo & Zio, Enrico & Kang, Rui, 2017. "Modeling dependent competing failure processes with degradation-shock dependence," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 165(C), pages 422-430.

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