Advances in Non-Destructive Structural Health Monitoring and Damage Detection
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 295
Special Issue Editors
Interests: structural health monitoring (SHM); reinforced concrete; rehabilitation & strengthening of existing R.C. structures; fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP); piezoelectric sensors; PZT; electro-mechanical impedance (EMI); electro-mechanical admittance; non-destructive testing (NDT); seismic design; dynamic response
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Interests: structural health monitoring (SHM); fiber-reinforced concrete (FRC); reinforced concrete; rehabilitation & strengthening of existing R.C. structures; piezoelectric sensors; PZT; non-destructive testing (NDT); seismic performance assessment; seismic analysis
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Interests: structural health monitoring (SHM); reinforced concrete; rehabilita reinforced concrete; fiber-reinforced concrete (FRC); structural health monitoring (SHM); rehabilitation & strengthening of existing R.C. structures; fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP); piezoelectric sensors; PZT; electro-mechanical impedance (EMI); electro-mechanical admittance; non-destructive testing (NDT)
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Structural health monitoring (SHM) presents an intriguing area of focus within non-destructive techniques (NDTs), posing significant challenges in its application across various industries. Furthermore, the aging of civil infrastructure and inadequate maintenance practices can potentially lead to catastrophic incidents, posing risks to human life and substantial financial burdens for their repair and restoration. Hence, the development of NDTs to ensure the robustness and reliability of SHM has become an immediate and vital priority for safeguarding civil structures.
This Special Issue aims to highlight the most recent advancements in SHM techniques and the current state-of-the-art developments in the field. Additionally, we welcome research papers that introduce innovative emerging methodologies. Furthermore, this Special Issue encourages the submission of research integrating machine learning algorithms into well-established SHM. Submissions covering a wide range of topics, including but not limited to the following aspects, will be carefully reviewed for potential publication:
- Structural health monitoring (SHM);
- Damage detection;
- Residual Service Life (RSL) assessment;
- Machine learning algorithms;
- Vibration-based SHM;
- Acoustic emission (AE);
- Wave-based SHM;
- Electro-mechanical impedance;
- Computer vision-based SHM;
- Piezoresistive sensing;
- Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors.
Dr. George Sapidis
Dr. Maria C. Naoum
Dr. Nikos Papadopoulos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- structural health monitoring (SHM)
- non-destructive testing (NDT)
- residual service life (RSL)
- machine learning algorithms
- structural integrity assessment
- electro-mechanical impedance (EMI)
- acoustic emission (AE)
- piezoresistive sensing
- vibration-based SHM
- computer vision-based SHM
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