Recent Perspectives on Smart Structures and Infrastructures for Enhanced Vibration Mitigation and Health Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is dedicated to recent perspectives on smart civil structures and infrastructures for enhanced vibration mitigation and health monitoring. A smart structure or infrastructure can be achieved by adding smart materials, devices,  sensors, signal processors, or communication networks in order to increase its safety, to monitor its health during the entire life cycle, to enhance its comfort and functionality in the exercise conditions, or to smartly adapt itself to different loading conditions. Ambient and anthropic loadings, acting directly or indirectly, on structures and infrastructures cause vibrations that should be limited. Designing smart structures and infrastructures or introducing smartness in existent structures and infrastructures makes it possible to continuously monitor their dynamical response and to mitigate vibrations when they are undesired or exceed a given threshold.

This Special Issue centers topics that concern:

• The control system (passive, semi active, active, hybrid);
• The control devices (absorbers, dampers, inerters, isolators, etc.);
• The design strategy and related tools (optimization problems, solving algorithms, computational burdens, etc.);
• The smart materials (concerning sensors and devices);
• The structural health monitoring apparatus (sensors and networks, materials, placement along the structure, dynamical monitoring, remote monitoring and control, algorithms, data acquisition systems, processing aspects).

The actions considered arise from the environment (e.g., earthquake, wind, temperature), as well as from anthropic activities (e.g., traffic produced by vehicles, trains, etc.). We welcome the submission of papers that deepen our understanding of problems concerning modelling and numerical aspects as well as those that present experimental results from monitoring and control tests.

Prof. Dr. Maurizio De Angelis
Prof. Dr. Michela Basili
Guest Editors

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