Structural Health Monitoring in Civil Engineering: From Damage Detection to Safety Assessment
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: structural health monitoring; vibration; guided wave; structural sensing
Interests: seismic damage monitoring; ultrasonic wave monitoring
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Around the world, the time of the massive infrastructure construction has passed in most of countries, then the needs for operation and maintenance come as follows. Structural health monitoring, as one of the most effective approaches, is able to provide essential data on the structural state of buildings. In recent years, the rapid progress in structural sensing techniques and data processing has prompted structural health monitoring become a more credible approach for assessing civil structural states.
In all aspects of structural health monitoring, the essential issue is damage detection, which provides information directly related to structural performance. Therefore, this Special Issue, “Structural Health Monitoring in Civil Engineering: From Damage Detection to Safety Assessment”, invites researchers to submit their up-to-date studies on SHM and damage detection, including but not limited to the following:
- Vibration-based structural health monitoring;
- Wave-based structural health monitoring;
- Optical fiber sensing in structural health;
- Machine vision-based structural damage monitoring;
- Piezoelectric smart aggregate-based damage monitoring;
- Acoustics and ultrasonic methods.
Prof. Dr. Wensong Zhou
Prof. Dr. Shuang Hou
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- structural health monitoring
- damage detection
- vibration
- machine vision
- piezoceramics
- acoustics and ultrasonics
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