Selected Papers from the 6th International Conference on Integrity-Reliability-Failure (IRF2018)
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2019) | Viewed by 17727
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electromechanical coupling mechanisms; pneumatic actuators; numerical and analytical modelling of pneumatic circuits and actuators; experimental design; fault diagnosis, fault tree analysis (FTA); failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA); reliability; friction and wear of thin films; additive manufacturing
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Interests: machine design; joining technology; fatigue; additive manufacturing; contact mechanics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We plan to publish a Special Issue, including high-quality papers presented during the 6th International Conference on Integrity-Reliability-Failure (IRF2018). Actuators will be one of the sponsors of the aforementioned conference (website: https://paginas.fe.upNaN/~irf/IRF2018/index.htm), to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, 22–26 July, 2018. Following the end of the conference, some selected papers that match the Journal topics will be published in open access, with the aim of providing a broad overview of the latest achievements and applications of actuators in many fields of mechanics, covering industry, automation, automotive, aerospace, and biomechanics. Papers could be original research papers, as well as review papers focused on the current state-of-the-art in one of the areas covered by the journal’s aims and scopes. The main topics of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- Electromechanical actuators
- Electromagnetic actuators
- Electrodynamic actuators
- Fluid mechanical actuators
- Pneumatic actuators
- Hydraulic actuators
- Smart actuators
- Actuators for medical devices and biomechanics (for instance, in cardiology or orthopaedics)
- Biofluid mechanics
- Actuators for energy and power systems
- Actuators for automatic machines
- Solid-Fluid interaction and experimental/numerical/analytical assessment
- Fluid dynamics and experimental / numerical / analytical approaches for its study
- Actuators for hybrid and electrically powered vehicles
- Actuators in Mechatronics
- Management and control of actuators in industry/automation/automotive/aerospace/biomechanics or any other field
- Risk assessment and reliability of energy and power systems
Abstracts and extended versions of the papers must be submitted through the conference website (https://paginas.fe.upNaN/~irf/IRF2018/index.htm) respectively within 15th January 2018 and 15th March 2018.
After the conference, a conference committee will select between 10 and 15 papers and invite the respective authors to submit revised/extended versions of their articles, in agreement with the rules and the format of the journal.
Dr. Giorgio Olmi
Prof. Dr. Joaquim Silva Gomes
Dr. Massimiliano De Agostinis
Guest Editors
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