1. What are the contributions mentioned in the paper "Assessment of diagnostic and prognostic condition indices for efficient and robust maintenance decision-making of systems subject to stress corrosion cracking" ?
As a complement to these efforts, this paper analyzes the effectiveness of some well-known diagnostic and prognostic indices for maintenance decision-making.. The study is based on a system subject to competing risks due to multiple crack paths.. The comparison results allow us to conclude on the performance and on the robustness of these strategies, hence giving some suggestions on the choice of reliable condition indices for maintenance decision-making.
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2. What have the authors stated for future works in "Assessment of diagnostic and prognostic condition indices for efficient and robust maintenance decision-making of systems subject to stress corrosion cracking" ?
For their future works, the authors continue studying the effectiveness of diagnostic and prognostic condition indices based on other degradation and failure models of SCC.. For instance, the authors can consider a model whose the system failure occurs when there are at least some number of cracks bigger than some length.
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3. What is the reason why the data-set is so poor?
Since the data-set is very poor (only one crack increment and a few inspection times are gathered for one crack path [26]), they seem not enough reliable for safety and reliability analysis.
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4. What is the probability of multiple cracks appearing on the system?
Multiple crack paths appearing on the system may coalesce, accelerate the apparent crack growth, and hence generate largest cracks on the system [40].
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