Construction Process Monitoring and Structural Damage Identification for Buildings and Bridges

Dear Colleagues,

Construction process monitoring plays an important role in the construction of buildings, which determines the quality and durability of high-rise or large-span building structures. Meanwhile, structural damage identification can identify the internal damage of a building structure in the early stage, which can extend the service life and reduce the expense of maintenance and the cost of human resources. In the context of the development of high-rise buildings and skyscrapers, designers, engineers, construction crews, and maintenance staff must pay attention to the whole process that from construction to service.

The main aim of this Special Issue "Construction Process Monitoring and Structural Damage Identification for Buildings and Bridges" in Buildings is to provide a platform for the discussion of the major research challenges and achievements on the development of novel construction process monitoring strategies for improving the management efficiency of buildings under construction; innovative damage identification; and anomaly detection methods for accurately localizing and quantifying structural damage of buildings in serving an accurate and high-efficiency finite element model, which can update methods for building structures and structural analysis and condition assessment.

This Special Issue provides an integrated view of the problems associated with the achievement of health monitoring strategies for buildings under construction period and the trends in the development of structural damage identification methods for in-service buildings.

Prof. Minshui Huang warmly invites authors to submit their papers for potential inclusion in this Special Issue on structural health monitoring of buildings in the construction and operational period.

Prof. Dr. Minshui Huang
Dr. Jianfeng Gu
Guest Editor

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