Advances in Structural Health Monitoring of the Built Environment

Dear Colleagues,

Interest in the performance and safety of infrastructures and the built environment developed during the early 1980’s as several academics transitioned their research from disaster mitigation to resilience, sustainability and livability of the built environment. There have been significant advancements in sensing, imaging and nondestructive evaluation technologies and their applications to actual operating structures in the field, and a community of researchers experienced in health monitoring for the management of infrastructures has formed world-wide. There is also full awareness of the importance of understanding complex systems such as entire metropolitan areas with human, natural and engineered elements and leveraging cyber–physical systems for enhancing their livability, sustainability and resilience. All engineering and science disciplines must collaborate for convergent, integrative research in the development of the “intelligent city”. The infrastructure health monitoring community plays an indispensable role in “intelligent city” research, as this community has already experienced monitoring the performance of large infrastructures at the heart of complex urban systems by leveraging advanced sensing and imaging, all aspects of data science, digital twins, uncertainty and human factors. At the same time, the meaningful long-term applications of performance and health monitoring of actual infrastructures, especially in the early diagnosis of their deterioration and damage, are not widely known. The Guest Editors are interested in collecting examples of advances and applications of health and performance monitoring in recent years, especially applications to aging infrastructures as well as emerging systems such as Ocean Wind Farms and intelligent (livable, sustainable and resilient) cities. The main objective is to document the actual state-of-the-art practice, future prospects and the potential of this field of research, especially with examples on actual infrastructures by cross-disciplinary researchers.

Prof. Dr. Ahmet Emin Aktan
Prof. Dr. Branko Glisic
Dr. Carlo Rainieri
Prof. Dr. Ivan Bartoli
Guest Editors

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