Structural Health Monitoring and Intelligent Operation Maintenance of Concrete and Steel Structures

Dear Colleagues,

Civil, mechanical and aeronautical engineering structures or components are often subjected to operational loadings, environmental impacts or earthquake excitations during their service life, which inevitably induce defaults and damages and consequently affect their operational performance. Structural health monitoring and intelligent operation maintenance has increasingly become an essential part of engineering structures with the aim of increasing the safety and reliability of structures through measurements of the operating and loading environment and improving the critical responses of a structure for the tracking and evaluation of incidents, anomalies or damages, along with extending the service life through in-time repairing and strengthening for performance improvement. This Special Issue aims at presenting recent advances in the structural health monitoring and intelligent operation maintenance of concrete and steel structures, particularly the monitoring/maintenance techniques enhanced by machine leaning, computational intelligence or data mining. This Special Issue will cover topics of interest that include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Concrete/steel structural health monitoring;
• Concrete/steel structural damage detection;
• Concrete/steel structural safety evaluation;
• Concrete/steel structural deformation identification;
• Operation maintenance of concrete/steel structures;
• Repair and strengthening of concrete/steel structures;
• Application of machine learning for damage detection;
• Application of machine learning for structural maintenance;
• Application of new materials for structural repairing;
• Application of data mining for structural monitoring.

Dr. Demi Ai
Prof. Dr. Hongyou Cao
Prof. Dr. Xiaowei Ye
Guest Editors

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