Structural Health Monitoring of Masonry Buildings: Current Practice and Future Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue “Structural Health Monitoring of Masonry Buildings: Current Practice and Future Challenges” aims to collect and disseminate the most recent advances in the employment of structural health monitoring techniques for the condition assessment of existing masonry buildings. In this regard, original contributions on continuous monitoring and on-site static and dynamic testing of ordinary, strategic, and cultural heritage masonry constructions are invited, as well as advancements on SHM data analysis techniques for supporting the maintenance, preservation, structural assessment, and rehabilitation of the existing built asset. This Special Issue accommodates contributions dealing with advanced monitoring technologies and novel identification techniques, as well as with the fusion between heterogeneous experimental data and state-of-the-art analytical and computational models. The Special Issue welcomes applications focusing on single case studies as well as those addressed to the urban and territorial scales, in both ordinary and emergency conditions, exploring—among others—the topics of:

• Integration of dynamic tests with other non-destructive techniques or static monitoring;
• Innovative sensing technologies and monitoring networks, optimal sensor placement, and data fusion strategies;
• Assessment of aging, degradation. and damage phenomena from monitoring data;
• Real-time updating and employment of physics-based and surrogate digital twins;
• Hybrid data-informed and model-driven methodologies for structural health diagnosis and prognosis;
• Use of ambient vibration tests to calibrate numerical models or assess the effectiveness of strengthening interventions;
• Early-warning systems and protection of the built heritage in seismic-prone regions;
• Supporting decision-makers in the aftermath of a seismic event with damage/usability condition assessment.

Dr. Serena Cattari
Dr. Philippe Gueguen
Dr. Ilaria Venanzi
Guest Editors

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