The UAH Reliability and Failure Analysis Lab (RFAL) is a multi-disciplinary organization providing customers with access to the latest developments in the field of reliability. Our students have hands on experience with the tools that support our research efforts. We develop experienced candidates for the worldwide engineering workforce. Our research customer base includes both government and comm
ercial clients. We are active participants in the current effort within the DoD to minimize operational costs of their weapon systems through effective implementation of RCM and CBM. Our specialties include examining material properties of components that have reliability and safety implications due to the life extension of their current systems. Much of our commercial customer’s focus has been on verifying that their delivered products meet or exceed the stated standards for reliability and maintainability. The impact of our analysis has a positive impact on their designs resulting in cost effective design changes and optimization of vendor selection. Our lab is focused on providing our customers with a full range of capabilities grounded in the Reliability Engineering Discipline. We offer capabilities that span the life cycle of a product from Design for Reliability to After Market Testing, aka… “Cradle to Grave”
Our services include:
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
Condition Based Maintenance (CBM)
Reliability Modeling
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Failure Mode, Effects, and Critically Analysis (FMECA)
Risk Assessment
Probability Risk Assessment (PRA)
Testing to determine design and destruct limits
Physics of Failure
Reliability Modeling
UID Parts Marking Policy
Design of Experiments
Materials Research
Reliability Testing – Design to grave
Analysis of HUMS Data
Complex Modeling and Simulation
