A General Model to Monitor the Risk of a Failure to a Means of Transport in Service

A model to monitor the risk of a failure/damage (undesirable event) to a means of transport has been outlined in the paper, with findings presented in [2] applied. Destructive processes such as the wear-and-tear, fatigue, and ageing, which arise in the course of the system’s (here: the means of transport) service are most fundamental factors that make health/maintenance status thereof deteriorate. A relationship that describes the probability of an undesirable event (failure) against the system’s service life has been formulated. The rate at which undesirable events may occur, i.e. the failure rate, has also been defined. What results from derived relationships is the statement that failure rates are functions of time the system remains in service. With the permissible risk level assumed, there is a chance to determine the permissible time of failsafe operation.