Symmetry in Reliability Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

Modern products and systems are always desired to be highly reliable. As a result, reliability engineering becomes an important subject, with research on improving product reliability. The purpose of this Special Issue is to show and share new ideas and achievements of reliability estimation approaches, reliability prediction methods, reliability design tools, and related applications in engineering practices with relevant experts, scholars, and engineers around the world. Symmetric and asymmetry properties are commonly inherent in numerous physical and engineering systems, and have been studied by various researchers. We would like to invite experts to contribute their research by employing symmetry or asymmetry concepts in their methods and methodologies. The topics of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following: prognostics and health management, failure mechanism analysis, degradation modeling, reliability estimation, fault-tolerant control, fault diagnosis, health management, network reliability analysis, maintenance strategy, and digital twins. Manuscript types include original research papers, reviews, and letters.

Dr. Di Liu
Dr. Cun Shi
Dr. Xiaoyu Cui
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Symmetry is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.