Sensor Application for Nondestructive Structural Health Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

The integrity of constructions and structures is constantly affected by multiple factors: aging, fatigue, corrosion, etc. Over time, degradations are accumulated and will eventually reduce the structures' disaster resistance ability, leading to failures. The potential for such accidents directly threatens the safety of both lives and properties. With these rising concerns, structural health monitoring (SHM) and rehabilitation technology have become top research focus areas. SHM involves the observation and analysis of a system over time. SHM uses periodically sampled response measurements to monitor changes to engineering structures, such as bridges and buildings. Despite the tremendous research done in the past few decades, SHM and the associated instrumentation still face significant issues and challenges, including:

• the calibration and tolerance of instruments and sensors,
• measurement errors,
• the reproducibility of the testing conditions,
• the dependability of the data transmission and storage systems,
• the ability of the data processing algorithms to identify the changes with an acceptable level of confidence, etc.

Periodic inspection is the essence of SHM; it has to start from the beginning of the operating service to detect defects in its early stage. The instrumentation must be robust enough to ensure trustworthy measurements throughout the structure's life.

This Special Issue focuses on sensor application in the SHM field. This includes developments, technical improvements, and new technologies. We would like to invite the community to submit their original research articles and review articles that contain theoretical, analytical, and experimental investigations covering all aspects of sensor application for nondestructive structural health monitoring.

Dr. Benjamin Ducharne
Guest Editor

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• structural health monitoring
• instrumentation
• testing conditions
• calibration
• tolerance
• level of confidence
• defects detection