Structural Health Monitoring of Tunnel and Underground Engineering
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2024) | Viewed by 1503
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Currently, fast urban development has led to numerous tunnel and underground engineering (TUE) projects that are used for public or commercial purposes, and ensuring their structural health holds great significance for social stability. Owing to the coupling action of frequent external disturbances and intricate environments, behavioral deterioration occurs in these structures during long-term operation, leading to potential safety hazards. Therefore, the structural health monitoring (SHM) of TUE plays an essential role in the construction of smart and resilient cities. Specifically, SHM can help evaluate and predict the structural performance state of TUE and provide support in decision making regarding their maintenance to reduce the risk of failure and improve their structural resilience.
However, the complex operating environment and exorbitant monitoring costs result in fresh challenges for the SHM of TUE. This Special Issue, which aims to systematically show the cutting-edge achievements associated with the SHM of TUE, is thus established. All original papers on this topic are welcome, and comprehensive review articles are especially encouraged. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Case studies of the SHM of TUE;
- New sensing technologies, data-processing methods, and monitoring solutions for the SHM of TUE;
- New evaluation approaches and prediction models for determining the structural performance of TUE;
- The development of secure intelligent control platforms and techniques for TUE and its applications;
- Methods of resilience assessment for TUE under single and multiple disasters;
- The application of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques in the SHM of TUE.
Prof. Dr. Xuesong Cheng
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- structural health monitoring
- tunnel and underground engineering
- sensing technology
- intelligent monitoring
- performance assessment
- intelligent maintenance
- artificial intelligence
- resilience improvement
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