Reliability and Condition Monitoring of Electric Motors and Drives: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F: Electrical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 731
Special Issue Editors
Interests: rotating electrical machines; fault-tolerant design and control; lifetime modelling; partial discharge; reliability-oriented design; thermal management
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Interests: electrical machines; diagnostics of electrical machines; predictive maintenance; motor current signature analysis; stray flux analysis; vibration analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The growing demand for more energy-efficient technologies is acting as a driving force in the development of lightweight and high-power density electric drives intended for applications ranging from industry to the transport sector. Nevertheless, failures occurring in electric drive components (i.e., motor, power converter, battery) might lead to significant consequences in terms of economic losses and down-times. Therefore, condition-monitoring technology, fault-tolerant design, and enhanced reliability represent viable solutions for preventing and minimizing failure outcomes.
This Special Issue intends to collect original research, practical contributions, and review articles on the condition monitoring and fault‑tolerant design of electrical machines and drives. Research studies on insulation aging mechanisms, lifetime prediction, and partial discharge are also invited.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Condition monitoring and signal processing;
- Fault-tolerant electrical machines and drives;
- Advanced control algorithms for improving reliability;
- Modelling, detection, and measurement of partial discharge;
- Accelerated aging tests on electrical machine insulation;
- Insulation lifetime modelling and prediction;
- Prediction and diagnostics of inter-turn short circuits, bearing faults, broken rotor bars, eccentricity, and manufacturing defects.
Dr. Paolo Giangrande
Dr. Marcello Minervini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- condition monitoring
- fault tolerance
- dielectric breakdown
- partial discharge
- diagnostics
- lifetime forecasting
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