Structural Health Monitoring in Bridges and Infrastructure

Dear Colleagues,

The safety and durability of bridges and other infrastructures have always been the focus of scholars and engineers. Structural health monitoring is important to ensure the safety and durability of bridges and other infrastructures. Significant advances in sensing technology, communication levels, and intelligent algorithms have driven the widespread application of structural health monitoring systems in these infrastructures. Based on the various structural responses obtained by sensing technology, the safety performance of the structure is evaluated through analysis of monitoring data and inversion of structure information. In addition, structural loads are important information for structural health monitoring, but not all loads are known or measurable. The acquisition of structural response is the basis for structural health monitoring, but only part of the structural responses can be obtained. Therefore, structural load identification and structural response reconstruction are important parts of structural health monitoring. In particular, artificial intelligence and machine learning have recently opened up new application opportunities for structural health monitoring, which attempt to establish complex mapping relationships between monitored data and structural properties and develop intelligent diagnoses of structures in a data-driven manner.

In this Special Issue, we invite worldwide researchers to publish their original works highlighting the state-of-the-art application of structural health monitoring in bridges and other infrastructures.

Prof. Dr. Yang Yang
Dr. Yang Yang
Dr. Lijun Liu
Guest Editors

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