Applications of Structural Health Monitoring in Building Engineering
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2027 | Viewed by 23
Editors
Interests: structural health monitoring
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Interests: structural analysis theory; structural optimization of cable-supported bridges
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Special Issue Information
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 damage and consequently affect their operational performance. Structural health monitoring and intelligent operation maintenance have increasingly become an essential part of engineering structures. Their aim is to increase 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 damage, combined with extending the service life through in-time repair and strengthening for performance improvement. This Special Issue aims to present recent advances in the structural health monitoring and intelligent operation maintenance of concrete/steel structures, particularly the monitoring/maintenance techniques enhanced by machine learning, computational intelligence or data mining. This Special Issue will cover topics of interest that include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Digital twin-driven intelligent monitoring and lifecycle management of concrete/steel structures
- Physics-informed machine learning for structural damage diagnosis and performance prediction
- Operational maintenance of concrete/steel structures;
- Repair and strengthening of concrete/steel structures;
- Concrete/steel structural deformation identification;
- Concrete/steel structural health monitoring;
- Concrete/steel structural damage detection;
- Concrete/steel structural safety evaluation.
Dr. Demi Ai
Prof. Dr. Hongyou Cao
Prof. Dr. Hedong Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- concrete structures
- steel structures
- damage detection
- structural health monitoring
- intelligent operation maintenance
- repair and strengthening
- machine learning
- data mining
- digital twin-driven
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