Advances in Structural Integrity and Failure Analysis
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2026 | Viewed by 12
Special Issue Editors
Interests: structural integrity; image processing; instrumentation and measurement
Interests: structural design; composite materials; smart materials; fluid–structure interaction; mechanical behavior of materials; design for additive manufacturing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Many people strive on a day-to-day basis to ensure the integrity of critical structures, avoiding costly and dangerous failures. Monitoring and evaluating structural integrity is therefore a major concern in real-life applications. Likewise, to understand why structures fail, the analysis of any failures is also crucial, as they provide intelligence on how and why such issues arise.
Driven by advances in artificial intelligence, big data, imaging devices and other instrumentation, we are now able to have more information about a structure than ever. Therefore, novel methods must be developed and applied to the data in order to obtain valuable information on the field. Furthermore, these also enable novel theoretical and computational developments in the field.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue with novel experimental or theoretical work in the field of structural integrity and failure analysis or related subjects.
This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances in the multiple facets of structural integrity and failure analysis, in the form of original research articles or reviews. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Novel methods for the evaluation of structural integrity and failure
- Investigation of failure mechanisms
- Structural monitoring of real-life structures
- Novel methods for computational analysis of structural failure
- Experimental or computational analysis of crash
- Scientific reconstruction of accidents
- Artificial intelligence and big data applied to structural integrity and/or failure analysis
- Image-based monitoring of structural integrity
- Application case studies
Dr. Pedro José da Silva Carvalho Pereira de Sousa
Dr. Giangiacomo Minak
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- structural integrity
- failure analysis
- structural monitoring
- crash analysis
- scientific reconstruction
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