Stephen B Johnson & Thomas Gormley 
System Health Management 
with Aerospace Applications

System Health Management: with Aerospace Applications
provides the first complete reference text for System Health
Management (SHM), the set of technologies and processes used to
improve system dependability. Edited by a team of engineers and
consultants with SHM design, development, and research experience
from NASA, industry, and academia, each heading up sections in
their own areas of expertise and co-coordinating contributions from
leading experts, the book collates together in one text the
state-of-the-art in SHM research, technology, and applications. It
has been written primarily as a reference text for practitioners,
for those in related disciplines, and for graduate students in
aerospace or systems engineering.

There are many technologies involved in SHM and no single person
can be an expert in all aspects of the discipline.System
Health Management: with Aerospace Applications provides an
introduction to the major technologies, issues, and references in
these disparate but related SHM areas. Since SHM has evolved most
rapidly in aerospace, the various applications described in this
book are taken primarily from the aerospace industry. However, the
theories, techniques, and technologies discussed are applicable to
many engineering disciplines and application areas.

Readers will find sections on the basic theories and concepts of
SHM, how it is applied in the system life cycle (architecture,
design, verification and validation, etc.), the most important
methods used (reliability, quality assurance, diagnostics,
prognostics, etc.), and how SHM is applied in operations
(commercial aircraft, launch operations, logistics, etc.), to
subsystems (electrical power, structures, flight controls, etc.)
and to system applications (robotic spacecraft, tactical missiles,
rotorcraft, etc.).

About the author

Dr Stephen B. Johnson is a Heath Management Systems Engineer
at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in the USA, as well as an
associate research professor at the University of Colorado at
Colorado Springs. He has been active in the field of SHM for over
20 years, and has authored many research papers on the topic. He
has also authored or edited 3 books in the aerospace field
including The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American
and European Space Programs.

Mr Thomas Gormley has been involved with the NASA
Aerospace industry for over 20 years, and was the Integrated
Vehicle Health Management Project Leader for Rockwell Space Systems
during the early 1990s. He brings expertise in systems
implementation to the project.

Dr Seth S. Kessler is president and owner of Metis Design
Corporation, a design consulting firm specializing in custom
sensing solutions. He brings expertise in structural health
monitoring and composite materials to the project.

Mr Charles Mott is a business analyst with the Tauri
group, currently under contract at NASA. He brings expertise in the
socio-technical aspects of large-scale technological projects to
the project.

Dr Ann Patterson-Hine is Group Leader of the Health
Management Technologies Group at the Ames Research Center. She
brings expertise on the use of engineering models for model-based
reasoning in advanced monitoring and diagnostic systems to the
project.

Dr Karl Reichard is head of the ARL Penn State Monitoring
and Automation Department. He brings expertise in the
implementation of signal processing, control and embedded
diagnost

Mr Philip A. Scandura, Jr joined Honeywell in 1984 where
he currently holds the position of Staff Scientist in their
Advanced Technology Organization. He brings expertise in the system
definition and implementation of real-time, embedded systems for
use in safety-critical and mission-critical applications to the
project.