Shock and Vibration Special Issue on Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis of Critical Components CALL FOR PAPERS Some critical components, such as bearings, gearboxes, and impellers, are widely used in machines. Their faults may accelerate the failures of other components and finally result in machine breakdowns. To prevent any unexpected machine breakdowns and accidents, early faults of critical components should be detected as soon as possible. Once early faults of critical components are diagnosed, their performance degradation assessment and remaining useful life estimation should be conducted to maximize lifetime of critical components. This special issue focuses on vibration based methods for fault diagnosis and prognosis of critical components. Lead Guest Editor Dong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong [email protected] Guest Editors Chuan Li, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Cuenca, Ecuador [email protected] Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Patten recognition methods for diagnosis and prognosis of critical components Digital signal processing methods for diagnosis and prognosis of critical components Statistical signal processing methods for diagnosis and prognosis of critical components Reliability and robustness Bayesian methods for diagnosis and prognosis of critical components Soft computing and related techniques, such as evolutionary computing, fuzzy computing, probabilistic computing, and rough sets, and their new applications to diagnosis and prognosis of critical components Authors can submit their manuscripts via the Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/sv/cfm/. Achmad Widodo, University of Diponegoro, Semarang, Indonesia [email protected] Pavan Kumar Kankar, PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Jabalpur, India [email protected] Wahyu Caesarendra, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia [email protected] Manuscript Due Friday, 3 July 2015 First Round of Reviews Friday, 25 September 2015 Publication Date Friday, 20 November 2015