Health Monitoring and Maintenance of Civil Structures
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 4924
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Interests: engineering intelligent detection and monitoring technology of structures; engineering structure digitization and low carbonization; engineering structure public safety monitoring and protection
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The ability to monitor civil structures over their lifetime in order to improve reliability and availability and reduce life-cycle costs is of vital importance in many engineering fields. Structural health monitoring (SHM) is defined as a process of monitoring the performance and evaluating structural health based on measurements from on-structure sensing systems. SHM has attracted significant worldwide research efforts because it provides engineers and infrastructure owners with a more reliable way to monitor structural conditions to prevent catastrophic failure. Over the past decades, natural hazards of unusual magnitude compared to those listed in historic records, have struck several parts of the world. Seismic actions, catastrophic and unexpected flooding, heavy rainfalls, landslides, and rock falls have caused, in many cases, irreparable damage and loss of life. Hence, it is very critical to maintain and reinforce damaged civil engineering structures, and some innovative technologies are urgently needed to achieve this. We hope that this Special Issue attracts high-quality papers that contribute to health monitoring, damage assessment, and the prediction of remaining life, maintenance and reinforcement related to civil structures. All submissions will be subject to a rapid review process, which will be provided to ensure that the highest quality papers are included in this SI.
Prof. Dr. Yingying Zhang
Dr. Jianhui Hu
Dr. Yinglei Li
Dr. Wengui Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced sensing technology
- design and optimization of SHM systems
- signal processing and analysis of SHM systems
- damage diagnosis of structures based on monitoring data
- life cycle condition assessment of civil structures
- life extension of civil structures using SHM
- advanced civil structures maintenance and reinforcement technology
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