Design and Stress Analysis of Extraterrestrial ... - The Black Vault

'the use of earlier systems and units, the advisability of using
basic materials and component parts, stability against service
failure in the least reliable elements, the correctness of the
accepted structural solutions and product strength reserves;
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procedural and industrial provision for solutions arrived
at during planning;
- the necessary volume of tests during the experimental check
of designs, circuits, modes of operation, stability to external
effects, critical characteristics and conditions;
- the sufficiency of complex tests and checks of the correctness
of a comb3nation of systems under various possible emergency
situations.
During the compilation and coordination of works based on
programs to ensure ERE reliability, it is necessary to keep in mind:
- reliability as a given value can be achieved only after
conducting a series of adjustment stages for all parts and the ERE
as a whole;
Sachievement of the assigned level of reliability with the
correct work setting is determined by the number of Valid experiments
made while conducting a given stage of adjustment for the part of
the structure being examined or the ERE complex;
-the value which characterizes the reliability rises sharply
with the use of special airborne apparatus for monitoring, maintenance,
and optimization of ERE efficiency as a whole or an extraterrestrial
vehicle which uses an ERE as the basic motor.
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This latter can guarantee adaptability of an ERE to supporting
itself in working order during its entire life.
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