Recent Advancements and Trends in Structural Health Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

Structural health monitoring is a strategic tool for monitoring and non-invasive assessment of the health state of existing structures, infrastructures, and systems and can be applied in various fields such as aerospace, mechanical, civil. and electrical engineering. During their lifetime, systems are exposed to various impacts and environmental conditions that can lead to structural and non-structural damage. Recent advances in sensor technology and techniques have allowed us to gain insight into the diagnosis of material degradation and structural and non-structural damage.

Today, there is a trend to increase the life of structures. They are usually assesed at regular intervals based on the results of visual inspections or local non-destructive testing methods. Although visual inspections are essential, the results can often lead to subjective conclusions. Therefore, structural health monitoring is essential as a tool that can detect degradation continuously and at an early stage. SHM can serve as a decision support tool to reduce operating costs and risks throughout the life cycle.

This Special Issue focuses on recent developments in the field and aims to cover several topics, namely, sensors for monitoring the condition of structures, algorithms for damage detection and characterization, warning systems for structures, model-based methods for predicting the life of structures, the application of SHM for various exceptional loads, influence of environmental and operational conditions, innovative sensing solutions for SHM, damage detection and condition monitoring of cultural heritage, SHM systems of bridges, case study applications, digital image correlation inspection, and short-term monitoring systems for diagnostic stress testing of structures.

Prof. Dr. Hugo Filipe Pinheiro Rodrigues
Dr. Ivan Duvnjak
Guest Editors

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• Structural behaviour
• Health Monitoring
• sensors
• damage detection
• IoT