Reliability Assessment of the Lift Powertrain in a Lift-Plus-Cruise eVTOL: A Solution Method for GSPN.

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Title: Reliability Assessment of the Lift Powertrain in a Lift-Plus-Cruise eVTOL: A Solution Method for GSPN.
Authors: Liu, Chaohui1 luyi1@sjtu.edu.cn, Lu, Yi1,2, Wang, Yixuan1, Zhang, Yu3
Source: International Journal of Performability Engineering. May2026, Vol. 22 Issue 5, p237-244. 8p.
Subjects: Fault trees (Reliability engineering), Discrete event simulation, Monte Carlo method, Reliability in engineering, Electric propulsion, Airplanes, Propulsion systems
Abstract: The lift-plus-cruise electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft represents a major eVTOL configuration. However, the reliability of its lift powertrain has attracted increasing research attention because of its complex redundant architecture and dynamic failure behaviors. This paper proposes a reliability assessment framework for the lift powertrain of a lift-plus-cruise eVTOL in which a dynamic fault tree (DFT) model is mapped onto a generalized stochastic Petri net (GSPN) model, and a discrete event simulation (DES)-based GSPN quantitative analysis algorithm is developed. Based on this framework, the reliability of the lift powertrain is evaluated, and the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is validated through comparison with results from a Monte Carlo simulation (MCS)-based DFT. The simulation results indicate that the high-voltage battery is the most critical component affecting system reliability. Reducing its failure rate leads to substantially greater improvement in system reliability compared to improving other components, providing quantitative guidance for lift powertrain architecture optimization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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  Data: The lift-plus-cruise electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft represents a major eVTOL configuration. However, the reliability of its lift powertrain has attracted increasing research attention because of its complex redundant architecture and dynamic failure behaviors. This paper proposes a reliability assessment framework for the lift powertrain of a lift-plus-cruise eVTOL in which a dynamic fault tree (DFT) model is mapped onto a generalized stochastic Petri net (GSPN) model, and a discrete event simulation (DES)-based GSPN quantitative analysis algorithm is developed. Based on this framework, the reliability of the lift powertrain is evaluated, and the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is validated through comparison with results from a Monte Carlo simulation (MCS)-based DFT. The simulation results indicate that the high-voltage battery is the most critical component affecting system reliability. Reducing its failure rate leads to substantially greater improvement in system reliability compared to improving other components, providing quantitative guidance for lift powertrain architecture optimization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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