This work is concerned with the problem of delay-dependent adaptive fault-tolerant controller design against unknown actuator faults for linear continuous systems with time-varying delay. Based on the online estimation of possible faults by discontinuous adaptation law, identification parameters of the adaptive state feedback controller are updated autonomously to compensate the fault effects on the delayed system. For the first time, a convex combination idea and a projection-type adaptive approach are combined organically to derive the main results. A set of new delay-dependent reconfigurable stabilization criteria, which guarantee the stability of closed-loop systems in both fault-free and faulty cases, is established in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Two numerical instances for linear delayed systems and the linearized model for the lateral motion of Boeing 747 are respectively simulated to illustrate the superiority and the effectiveness of the presented adaptive delay-dependent results. 1207 implement adaptive FTC in contrast with active two-step FTC. There exist some important results on adaptive FTC, such as multiple-model adaptive FTC [4], direct model reference adaptive FTC [9], indirect adaptive robust FTC [10-12], Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model based adaptive reliable tracking [13], and adaptive back-stepping neural reconfigurable control [14]. Finally, recent results on controller reconfiguration for active FTC to look for a minimal invasive solution should also be mentioned [15][16][17][18][19].On the other hand, time delay appears often as an important source of instability or performance degradation in a great number of important engineering problems involving material, information, or energy transportation. The main methods to deal with delay can also be classified into two classes: delay-independent ones and delay-dependent ones. Usually, delay-dependent methods [20][21][22][23][24][25][26] can provide less conservative results than delay-independent ones. However, the issue of time delay is often ignored in the design of FTC especially active FTC, and there are relatively few works that have actually considered the effects of time delay [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]. In fact, in the presence of time delay, the FTC design becomes more complex and difficult yet deserves more attention, because most safety-critical systems are usually also time critical.Most of the aforementioned references concentrate on dealing with constant time delay. However, in some practical systems, time delays are varying as a consequence of rapid or even random variations in transmission delays or motion of separated systems of master-slave type. Works on passive FTC and active two-step FTC of time-varying delay systems have been reported in [35] and [36, 37], respectively. Notably, the linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) technique and the adaptive approach to designing reliable H 1 controller for linear delayed systems was successfully combined by using the descriptor model transformation in [34]. But to t...