Structural Health Monitoring, Active Control, and Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Structures
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 289
Special Issue Editors
Interests: structural health monitoring; damage identification; optimization; large-scale structures; non-destructive testing
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: active control systems; intelligent control systems; single objective optimization; multi/many-objective optimization; modeling of dynamic systems; robotics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on recent advances in structural health monitoring, active control, and artificial intelligence for engineering structures. We welcome submissions from any of these fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Structural health monitoring
- Active and semi-active control
- Artificial intelligence
- Nondestructive testing
- Structural damage identification
- Digital twins for buildings and infrastructure
Dr. Feng Xiao
Dr. Yousef Sardahi
Prof. Dr. Loulin Huang
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- structural health monitoring
- active and semi-active control
- artificial intelligence
- nondestructive testing
- structural damage identification
- digital twins and model updating
Benefits of Publishing in a Special Issue
- Ease of navigation: Grouping papers by topic helps scholars navigate broad scope journals more efficiently.
- Greater discoverability: Special Issues support the reach and impact of scientific research. Articles in Special Issues are more discoverable and cited more frequently.
- Expansion of research network: Special Issues facilitate connections among authors, fostering scientific collaborations.
- External promotion: Articles in Special Issues are often promoted through the journal's social media, increasing their visibility.
- Reprint: MDPI Books provides the opportunity to republish successful Special Issues in book format, both online and in print.
Further information on MDPI's Special Issue policies can be found here.
