Advanced Sensing, Fault Diagnostics, and Structural Health Management

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to this Special Issue of Sensors on “Advanced Sensing, Fault Diagnostics, and Structural Health Management”. Over the last few decades, the field of fault diagnostics and structural health management has been experiencing rapid developments. The reliability, availability, and safety of engineering systems can be significantly improved by implementing multifaceted strategies of in situ diagnostics and prognostics. With the development of intelligence algorithms, smart sensors, and advanced data collection and modeling techniques, this challenging research area has been receiving ever-increasing attention in both fundamental research and engineering applications. This has been strongly supported by the extensive applications ranging from aerospace, automotive, transport, manufacturing, and processing industries to defense and infrastructure industry. In view of the current state of the art and advances in this fast-growing discipline, in this Special Issue, we are calling for papers related to all aspects of fault diagnostics, damage identification, and prognostics-based health management. A wide range of topics are covered, including new theories, methodologies, optimization, and applications in sensing, measurement, modeling, control, and prognostics. Topics include but are not limited to:

• Measuring techniques for condition monitoring;
• Reliability analysis and design;
• Signal processing of measured data;
• Feature extraction of measured data;
• Fault diagnosis for prognosis and health management (PHM);
• Degradation modeling of measured data;;
• Measurement error analysis;
• RUL prediction method based on intelligent algorithms;
• Maintenance strategy optimization;
• Structural health monitoring (SHM);
• Non-destructive testing (NDT).

Dr. Yongbo Li
Dr. Bing Li
Dr. Jinchen Ji
Dr. Hamed Kalhori
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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