Structural Strength, Life Reliability and Design Optimization of Aircraft Engines
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Aeronautics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 457
Special Issue Editors
Interests: uncertainty quantification; reliability analysis; topology optimization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The structural integrity and reliability of aircraft engines are fundamental to ensuring flight safety, operational efficiency, and lifetime sustainability. With the increasing complexity of modern aero-engines and their extreme service environments, conventional deterministic design approaches are no longer sufficient to meet the stringent demands of performance, durability, and risk control. This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive forum for the dissemination of recent advances in structural strength analysis, life reliability assessment, and optimization methodologies tailored to aircraft engine systems.
We particularly welcome contributions that address the modeling and prediction of structural failure mechanisms under thermo-mechanical loading, incorporating uncertainty quantification and probabilistic methods into reliability-based design. Studies leveraging surrogate modeling, correlation analysis, and advanced optimization algorithms—such as topology optimization and multi-disciplinary design optimization (MDO)—are of strong interest. The integration of computational efficiency with high-fidelity physics-based models and the development of robust, uncertainty-aware design frameworks will be central themes of this issue.
By fostering a cross-disciplinary dialog between structural mechanics, reliability engineering, and design optimization, this Special Issue seeks to advance the theoretical foundations and practical applications of reliable and efficient aero-engine design.
Dr. Xi Liu
Dr. Cheng Yan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- lifetime prediction
- structural design
- uncertainty quantification
- reliability evaluation
- reliability design
- optimization algorithm
- topology optimization
- multi-disciplinary design optimization
- surrogate model
- correlation analysis
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