Research Advances in Structural Health Monitoring and Safety Assessment

Dear Colleagues,

Structural health monitoring and safety assessment are essential technical approaches for ensuring the safety, serviceability, and durability of civil infrastructure throughout its life cycle. With the increasing complexity of engineering systems and continuous changes in service environments, structural health monitoring is evolving from traditional periodic inspection toward real-time sensing, intelligent diagnosis, and predictive maintenance. The rapid development of sensor networks, computer vision, machine learning, digital twins, and multi-source data fusion has provided new theoretical methods and technical support for condition identification, damage diagnosis, performance degradation analysis, and safety assessment of civil engineering structures and equipment.

This Special Issue aims to present the latest research achievements in the field of structural health monitoring and safety assessment that demonstrate theoretical innovation, methodological advancement, and engineering application value. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Advanced sensing and monitoring technologies for structural health monitoring;
• Intelligent nondestructive testing technologies for structural safety assessment;
• Intelligent sensing, signal processing, and damage identification methods;
• Fusion and collaborative methods for multi-source data;
• Digital twins, model updating, and structural monitoring systems;
• Structural performance prediction, reliability assessment, and risk warning;
• Health monitoring and safety assessment of building structures and equipment.

Prof. Dr. Hui Luo
Prof. Dr. Liang Ren
Prof. Dr. Minshui Huang
Guest Editors

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