Principles:

• Physics of failure
• Sensors and devices
• Structural sensing
• Modeling and simulation
• Data-driven methods
• Model-based methods
• Multi-sensor fusion principles
• Logic/reasoning techniques
• Verification, validation, and maturation
• Benchmarking
• Affordability Aspects and the Business Case for PHM
• Standards and methodologies

Systems Design and Implementation:

• Requirements Development
• System design and engineering
• Automated reconfiguration
• Statistical analysis of Uncertainty
• Component-level PHM
• Nondestructive Evaluation Technologies with PHM Utilization
• Decision Support and Simulation
• PHM Computer-Aided Engineering Technologies/Applications
• Integrated Structural/Frame Health Management

Applications:

• PHM within Power Smart Grid technology
• PHM within Distributed, Networked and Cloud Computing
• PHM for electronics components and systems
• PHM within innovative Aerospace and Defense, Appliance, Medical, Electric Vehicle, Deep Drilling, and Energy Applications
• Fleet / Industrial PHM based maintenance management
• Informed Logistics
• Lessons Learned from PHM systems design and integration