Testing and Hybrid Modelling for a Reliable Prognosis in Advanced Mechanical and Aerospace Systems
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Machines Testing and Maintenance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 25
Special Issue Editor
Interests: full-field optical measurements; experiment-based structural dynamics; experimental modal analysis; identification of mechanical systems; model updating; flexible multi-body system dynamics; machine dynamics; finite element modelling; vibro-acoustics; substructuring; spectral methods in fatigue assessment; non-destructive testing; signal analysis; shaker and accelerated testing; signal processing for load identification; structural health monitoring; diagnostics
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Dear Colleagues,
the relentless demand for higher performances in highly dynamic loading conditions requires more precisely tuned modelling of the flexibility, actual realisation, boundary and loading conditions, damping and material property distributions in advanced mechanical and aerospace systems. The target performances (among the manifold ones) can be either multi-physics dynamic-state achievements or task-tailored component-life expectations. Defects, mismatched general behaviours due to exogenous factors, or unexpected changes of a system’s properties may impede the possibility of achieving the target performances in service conditions, instead raising the risk of failure and requiring recovery/maintenance strategies.
This Special Issue aims to gather contributions about the reduction in failure risk in factual complex systems during their lifecycle, with a particular focus on the prognosis of changes in the target performances in relation to the hard-to-model realisations of mechanical and aerospace systems.
Therefore, topics of interest include, but are not strictly limited to, the following:
1) Identification, definition, modelling, and test replication of multi-physics operative loading; in situ/environmental testing and signal processing.
2) Diagnostics, non destructive testing, and inspection for defects/starting failures.
3) Structural health monitoring and tailored maintenance criteria/actions.
4) Experiment-based system identification, structural dynamics and model updating, distributed boundary conditions, and non-linearity assessment.
5) Advanced material dynamic testing in changing environments.
6) Constitutive models and multi-axial equivalence criteria in the frequency domain.
7) Cumulative damage and fatigue estimation approaches.
8) Defect acceptance strategies with prognosis of influence on targets.
9) Uncertainty quantification and hybrid/coupled modelling.
10) Failure risk mapping in changing scenarios.
Dr. Alessandro Zanarini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- operative loading identification and replication
- non-destructive testing and inspection
- structural health monitoring
- experiment-based structural dynamics
- model updating
- material testing
- cumulative damage
- defect acceptance strategies
- maintenance
- uncertainty
- hybrid modelling
- risk mapping
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