Advances in Nondestructive Testing of Structures
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 1010
Special Issue Editors
Interests: system identification; damage detection; seismic assessment; vehicle–bridge interaction; rapid assessment; signal processing
Interests: structural reliability; infrastructure risk and resilience; probabilistic engineering mechanics; ai-based metamodeling
Interests: structural engineering; blast and impact loading; strengthening; damage assessment; finite element method
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Structures and infrastructure are susceptible to different types of damage as they age or experience altering events. Moreover, it is acknowledged that even if a structure survives a catastrophic event (such as a large earthquake) and remains undamaged, it may not be able to survive future catastrophic events (such as aftershocks or a typhoon). This is why a continuous structural assessment is necessary for structures and infrastructure, both during their lifetime and in the aftermath of a catastrophic incident. Thus far, the structural assessment of cities has heavily relied on visual inspections, which suffer from three significant drawbacks, as follows: (1) subjective judgment, (2) lack of experts, and (3) lengthy process. The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a scientific basis and offer practical solutions for smart city-based structural health monitoring through the application of nondestructive testing methods. By leveraging these advanced techniques, we aim to overcome the above-mentioned drawbacks and accelerate structural assessments. While a range of research on nondestructive structural health monitoring will be considered, the focus of this Special Issue will be placed on practical solutions that can be implemented at a city-wide scale to generate damage maps or assess the structural deterioration of buildings across an entire urban landscape.
Considering the explanations provided, topics of interest include the following:
- Advancements in structural health monitoring (SHM) methodologies;
- Short- and long-term structural health monitoring;
- Novel nondestructive damage detection methods;
- Digital twins for structural health monitoring;
- Digital twins for city-scale structural deterioration scenarios;
- City-scale damage maps after earthquakes;
- Smart city-based damage detection methods;
- Signal processing-based damage detection methods;
- Reliability, risk, and resilience assessments of structures;
- Deep learning application for SHM purposes.
Dr. Hadi Kordestani
Dr. Mahdi Shadabfar
Dr. Masoud Abedini
Dr. Zohreh Mousavi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- new approaches in SHM
- short- and long-term structural health monitoring
- periodical structural health monitoring
- nondestructive damage detection methods
- digital twins for SHM
- digital twins for city-scale structural health monitoring
- city-scale damage maps after earthquakes
- signal processing-based damage detection methods
- reliability, risk and resilience analysis
- deep learning
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