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The rapid increase in new power electronic devices and converters for electric transportation and smart grid technologies requires a deepanalysis of their component performances, considering all of the different environmental scenarios, overload conditions, and high stressoperations. Therefore, evaluation of the reliability and availability of these devices becomes fundamental both from technical and economicalpoints of view. The rapid evolution of technologies and the high reliability level offered by these components have shown that estimating reliability through the traditional approaches is difficult, as historical failure data and/or past observed scenarios demonstrate. With the aim topropose new approaches for the evaluation of reliability, in this book, eleven innovative contributions are collected, all focusedon the reliability assessment of power electronic devices and related components.

photovoltaic system --- battery --- DC-coupled configuration --- AC-coupled configuration --- mission profile --- reliability --- LED --- thermal cycling test --- accelerated test --- solder joint --- cracks --- current harmonics --- voltage harmonics --- power electronic converters --- cables --- capacitors --- PPS --- high-power thyristors --- reverse recovery currents --- electromagnetic launching field --- segmented LSTM --- microgrid inverter --- IGBT reliability --- online evaluation --- fusion algorithm --- multi-chip IGBT module --- bond wire --- module transconductance --- temperature calibration --- failure monitoring --- sensor lamp --- low-light mode --- high-light mode --- AC motor drive --- junction temperature --- lifetime prediction --- power MOSFET --- loss modeling --- SiC MOSFET --- AlGaN/GaN HEMT --- cascode structure --- single event effects --- technology computer-aided design simulation --- heavy-ion irradiation experiment --- photovoltaic systems --- DC/AC converter --- maintenance --- power system faults --- availability --- condition monitoring --- power device --- power electronics --- n/a

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The thirty-plus years of progress in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) have left a paramount impact on our everyday lives. Be it for the monitoring of fixed- and rotary-wing aircrafts, for the preservation of the cultural and architectural heritage, or for the predictive maintenance of long-span bridges or wind farms, SHM has shaped the framework of many engineering fields. Given the current state of quantitative and principled methodologies, it is nowadays possible to rapidly and consistently evaluate the structural safety of industrial machines, modern concrete buildings, historical masonry complexes, etc., to test their capability and to serve their intended purpose. However, old unsolved problematics as well as new challenges exist. Furthermore, unprecedented conditions, such as stricter safety requirements and ageing civil infrastructure, pose new challenges for confrontation. Therefore, this Special Issue gathers the main contributions of academics and practitioners in civil, aerospace, and mechanical engineering to provide a common ground for structural health monitoring in dealing with old and new aspects of this ever-growing research field.

Technology: general issues --- dynamic characteristic --- GB-RAR --- super high-rise building --- displacement --- wheel flat --- real-time monitoring --- strain distribution characteristics --- multisensor array --- precise positioning --- noncontact remote sensing (NRS) --- optical flow algorithm --- structural health monitoring (SHM) --- uniaxial automatic cruise acquisition device --- noise robustness --- sensitivity analysis --- cross-modal strain energy --- damage detection --- subspace system identification --- data-driven stochastic subspace identification (SSI-DATA) --- covariance-driven stochastic subspace identification (SSI-COV) --- combined subspace system identification --- PRISMA --- vibration-based damage detection --- crack damage detection --- piezoelectric impedance --- piezoelectric admittance --- peak frequency --- Bayesian inference --- uncertainty quantification --- masonry structures --- seismic structural health monitoring --- Bouc–Wen model --- model calibration --- hysteretic system identification --- BOTDR --- CFRP sheet --- un-bonded position --- cover delamination --- interfacial de-bonding --- monitoring system --- pipeline --- health and structural integrity --- Particle Impact Damper --- adaptive-passive damping --- damping of vibrations --- experiments --- submerged floating tunnel --- deep neural network --- machine learning --- sensor optimization --- failure monitoring accuracy --- mooring line --- sigmoid function --- Adamax --- categorical cross-entropy --- bending test --- bridge --- “compression–softening” theory --- frequency --- inverse problem --- nondestructive testing (NDT) method --- prestressed concrete (PC) girder --- prestress force determination --- prestress loss --- vertical deflection measurement --- rail --- guided wave ultrasound --- broken rail detection --- rail diagnostics --- structural health monitoring --- non destructive testing --- shape sensing --- inverse Finite Element Method --- fiber optics --- full-field reconstruction --- Structural Health Monitoring --- extreme function theory --- non-destructive testing --- extreme value theory --- generalised extreme distribution --- n/a --- Bouc-Wen model --- "compression-softening" theory

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The thirty-plus years of progress in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) have left a paramount impact on our everyday lives. Be it for the monitoring of fixed- and rotary-wing aircrafts, for the preservation of the cultural and architectural heritage, or for the predictive maintenance of long-span bridges or wind farms, SHM has shaped the framework of many engineering fields. Given the current state of quantitative and principled methodologies, it is nowadays possible to rapidly and consistently evaluate the structural safety of industrial machines, modern concrete buildings, historical masonry complexes, etc., to test their capability and to serve their intended purpose. However, old unsolved problematics as well as new challenges exist. Furthermore, unprecedented conditions, such as stricter safety requirements and ageing civil infrastructure, pose new challenges for confrontation. Therefore, this Special Issue gathers the main contributions of academics and practitioners in civil, aerospace, and mechanical engineering to provide a common ground for structural health monitoring in dealing with old and new aspects of this ever-growing research field.

Technology: general issues --- dynamic characteristic --- GB-RAR --- super high-rise building --- displacement --- wheel flat --- real-time monitoring --- strain distribution characteristics --- multisensor array --- precise positioning --- noncontact remote sensing (NRS) --- optical flow algorithm --- structural health monitoring (SHM) --- uniaxial automatic cruise acquisition device --- noise robustness --- sensitivity analysis --- cross-modal strain energy --- damage detection --- subspace system identification --- data-driven stochastic subspace identification (SSI-DATA) --- covariance-driven stochastic subspace identification (SSI-COV) --- combined subspace system identification --- PRISMA --- vibration-based damage detection --- crack damage detection --- piezoelectric impedance --- piezoelectric admittance --- peak frequency --- Bayesian inference --- uncertainty quantification --- masonry structures --- seismic structural health monitoring --- Bouc-Wen model --- model calibration --- hysteretic system identification --- BOTDR --- CFRP sheet --- un-bonded position --- cover delamination --- interfacial de-bonding --- monitoring system --- pipeline --- health and structural integrity --- Particle Impact Damper --- adaptive-passive damping --- damping of vibrations --- experiments --- submerged floating tunnel --- deep neural network --- machine learning --- sensor optimization --- failure monitoring accuracy --- mooring line --- sigmoid function --- Adamax --- categorical cross-entropy --- bending test --- bridge --- "compression-softening" theory --- frequency --- inverse problem --- nondestructive testing (NDT) method --- prestressed concrete (PC) girder --- prestress force determination --- prestress loss --- vertical deflection measurement --- rail --- guided wave ultrasound --- broken rail detection --- rail diagnostics --- structural health monitoring --- non destructive testing --- shape sensing --- inverse Finite Element Method --- fiber optics --- full-field reconstruction --- Structural Health Monitoring --- extreme function theory --- non-destructive testing --- extreme value theory --- generalised extreme distribution