Advanced Damage Detection and State Monitoring Technologies for Engineering Structures
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 November 2025 | Viewed by 54
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nondestructive evaluation; structural health monitoring; signal analysis; deep learning application
Interests: structural health monitoring; nondestructive testing; linear/nonlinear ultrasonics; composite structures; damage detection; intelligent detection; defect resonance; numerical modeling
Interests: structural health monitoring; structural damage imaging; material performance evaluation; ultrasonic array detection; intelligent detection
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the rapidly evolving environment, engineering materials and structures face unprecedented challenges. Aging infrastructure, environmental hazards, and escalating demands for safety and durability underscore the pressing need for advanced monitoring and diagnostic methodologies. In this context, innovative nondestructive testing techniques integrated with intelligent algorithms have emerged as transformative tools, enhancing detection accuracy while facilitating proactive maintenance and timely decision-making.
This Special Issue seeks to present state-of-the-art research and recent advancements in nondestructive evaluation (NDE) and structural health monitoring (SHM) technologies and intelligent algorithms tailored to structural engineering applications. We invite high-quality original research articles and comprehensive review papers addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Damage characterization of engineering materials;
- Intelligent monitoring and sensing;
- Structural state evaluation based on signal analysis;
- Applications of deep learning in NDE and SHM;
- Big data methods.
Prof. Dr. Jun Chen
Dr. Lunan Wei
Dr. Chenglong Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- structural health monitoring
- non-destructive evaluation
- deep learning algorithm
- damage detection
- big data method
- signal processing
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