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Failure and reliability analysis of heavy firefighting and rescue vehicles: a case study
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Faculty of Transport and Civil Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Piotrowo Str. 3, 60-965 Poznan, Poland
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Institute of Mechanical Science, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
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Institute of Safety Engineering, Fire Academy, Poland
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Faculty of Safety Engineering and Civil Protection, Fire Academy, Poland
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Wydział Inżynierii Lądowej i Transportu
Instytut Maszyn Roboczych i Pojazdów Samochodowych, Poland
Submission date: 2023-09-14
Final revision date: 2023-10-17
Acceptance date: 2023-11-19
Online publication date: 2023-12-15
Publication date: 2023-12-15
Corresponding author
Jarosław Selech
Wydział Inżynierii Lądowej i Transportu
Instytut Maszyn Roboczych i Pojazdów Samochodowych, Poland
Eksploatacja i Niezawodność – Maintenance and Reliability 2024;26(1):175505
HIGHLIGHTS
- The presented research results represent unique knowledge on life cycle performance analysis, reliability, maintainability, and mainly availability estimation, as well as modelling and prediction of the reliability of firefighting and rescue vehicles.
- The presented research results represent unique knowledge that is rarely reported in the scientific literature
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The purpose of the article was to analyse the reliability, maintainability, and availability estimates of firefighting and rescue engines. Analysing the reliability parameters of heavy firefighting and rescue vehicles over time requires knowledge of their failures. In this article, failure data from the six years of maintenance of ten heavy firefighting and rescue vehicles from ten were analysed in relation to two main subsystems. Reliability analysis was performed and the best-fit distribution was found, with the parameters calculated. For both subsystems, the chassis combined with the cabin and the superstructure, the 2P-Weibull distribution was identified as the most suitable fit. The availability and maintenance indicators for each vehicle and the individual subsystems were calculated. It was clearly defined that there exists a significant difference between the two subsystems analysed in terms of failure characteristics, as well as maintainability and availability parameters.