Proceedings of the

The 33rd European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2023)
3 – 8 September 2023, Southampton, UK

The Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) on Aviation: A Systematic Review

Christianne Reiser1, Emilia Villani2,a and Moacyr Machado Cardoso Junior2,b

1Embraer S/A, Brazil.

2Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA), Brazil.

ABSTRACT

The development of the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) has been motivated by the perceived limitations of fundamentally deterministic and probabilistic approaches to understand complex systems' behaviour. Congruent with the principles of Resilience Engineering, over recent years the FRAM has been progressively developed in scientific terms, and increasingly adopted in industrial environments with reportedly successful results. This paper aims to summarize available documents published between 2017 and 2022 about FRAM in the Aviation domain through a Systematic Literature Review (SLR). Seventeen (17) articles were reviewed, disclosing characteristics of the FRAM research regarding the method's application as well as proposing potential future research directions.

Keywords: Aviation, FRAM, Systematic review.


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