SPECIAL SESSION - CALL FOR PAPERS Sponsors: IEEE Power Electronics Society, IEEE Industry Applications Society, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society GENERAL CHAIR Antonio J. Marques Cardoso (Portugal) HONORARY CO-CHAIRS Giuseppe Buja (Italy) Gérard-André Capolino (France) TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Chiara Boccaletti (Italy) Jorge O. Estima (Portugal) SPECIAL SESSIONS CO-CHAIRS Sang Bin Lee (Korea) Eunice Ribeiro (Portugal) TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS Jose A. Antonino-Daviu (Spain) Luís Oliveira (Portugal) PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Vicente Leite (Portugal) Elias Strangas (USA) LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Adérito Alcaso (Logistics) Acácio Amaral Sílvia Ângelo (Secretary) Chiara Boccaletti Jorge O. Estima Ângela Ferreira (Logistics) Davide Fonseca (Treasurer) Vicente Leite António J. Marques Cardoso Luís Oliveira Figueiredo Ramos (Logistics) Eunice Ribeiro Ana Vieira (Logistics) Luca Zarri (ReviewNow) INTERNATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE Gérard-André Capolino (Chair) Fiorenzo Filippetti (Vice-Chair) Sang Bin Lee (Secretary) Alberto Bellini (Awards Chair) Jose A. Antonino-Daviu Giuseppe Buja Manes Fernandez-Cabanas Thomas Habetler Ronald Harley Humberto Henao Marian Kazmierkowski Christian Kral Antonio J. Marques Cardoso Martín Riera-Guasp Tadeusz Sobczyk Elias Strangas Special Session on FEM-Based Studies for Electrical Machines’ Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis organized and co-chaired by Anouar Belahcen (Aalto University) [email protected] Konstantinos N. Gyftakis (Oxford University) [email protected] The Finite Element Method has received a lot of attention during the last years in the scientific area of electrical machines. This is due to the fact that it offers a spatial and time-dependant insight of the machines’ electromagnetic behavior. Moreover, the analysis takes into account the actual machine geometry and the materials’ non-linearities. In this way, FEM has served as a valuable tool revealing the electrical machines interior world and offering more aspects and information than analytical models and/or experimentation, at the cost of higher computational time. The FEM has also been strongly related to the electrical machines’ fault diagnosis area for many reasons. Most importantly, it allows the study of the faulty electrical machine with safety. Moreover, FEM can be used to understand the evolution, impact and progression of the fault. Furthermore, FEM simulations take into consideration the slotting, saturation and skin effects and so they allow the application, study and invention of diagnostic methods as well as the extraction of conclusions and indications before applying experimental testing. This characteristic means a decreased financial cost for every new diagnostic method’s development. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:  Electromagnetic, thermal and/or stress analysis of faulty electrical machines  Fault diagnosis and prognosis methods  Degradation of materials and faults progression  Fault-producing physical mechanisms  Multiple fault analysis Provisional Full Paper Submission Deadline: January 26, 2015 Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2015 Final Paper submissions and authors’ registration: June 1, 2015 All the instructions for paper submission are included in the conference website: http://www.sdemped2015.ubi.pt/