Recent Developments in Vibration Control and Monitoring of Civil Structures

Dear Colleagues,

Civil structures are prone to different types of dynamic loads, e.g., earthquakes, strong wind, ocean waves. In large civil structures, such as high-rise buildings, long-span bridges, wind turbines, and others, to avoid the risk of structural damage, or ultimately collapse, which could have tremendous economic and human losses, there is a need for the installation of structural control and monitoring systems in the structures. As expected, novel structural designs often require the development of novel control and monitoring systems, with improved performance characteristics compared to traditional solutions. In particular, there is a challenge in the design of structural control and monitoring systems to properly mitigate and monitor structural vibrations in the case of extreme events, such as large-magnitude earthquakes, typhoons, and strong ocean waves. 

This Special Issue of Buildings aims to garner excellent research involving several aspects of theoretical development, algorithms, design, experiment, and practical implementations of control and monitoring systems in civil structures. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Design of novel high-performance dampers/sensors;
• Modeling of novel dampers/sensors;
• Experiments of novel damping/monitoring systems;
• Performance of novel dampers against extreme events;
• Structural identification based on monitoring data;
• Novel algorithms for identifying structural parameters and loadings.

Dr. Wenai Shen
Dr. Xiang Xiao
Dr. Zhouquan Feng
Guest Editors

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