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Special Issue "Advances in Structural Health Monitoring for Infrastructures"

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Materials Characterization".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2023 | Viewed by 2152

Special Issue Editors

Department of Engineering Mechanics, College of Mechanics and Materials, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
Interests: structural health monitoring; structural damage identification; vibro-acoustics
Department of Road Transport, Silesian University of Technology, 40-019 Katowice, Poland
Interests: structural health monitoring; structural damage identification; structural dynamics; vibro-acoustics
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Interests: structural health monitoring; probabilistic analysis; nonlinear vibrations; machine learning; earthquake engineering
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Department of Engineering Mechanics, College of Mechanics and Materials, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
Interests: structural health monitoring; structural damage identification; smart materials and structures; applied soft computing; structural vibration and control
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College of Civil Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
Interests: structural health monitoring; data-driven modeling and artificial intelligence; applied soft computing; model updating

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

A considerable amount of infrastructure has been constructed over the past few decades. Building materials of infrastructures could encounter degradation, corrosion, fatigue, etc., due to long-term services, as well as environmental and loading factors. Initial defects and damage could become more severe over time and threaten the safety and integrity of infrastructures. In this context, in-service infrastructures are anticipated to face a massive increase in demand for structural health monitoring (SHM) in the next decade. Advanced sensing networks and emerging technologies of big data and artificial intelligence have brought new opportunities and shown significant potential in the SHM field. Hence, it is of great significance to develop advanced sensing, processing, and evaluating technologies for SHM of infrastructures.

This Special Issue aims to collect papers that focus on all aspects of advances in SHM for infrastructures. The collections will be published after being peer-reviewed. The topics include but are not limited to:

  • Structural health monitoring
  • Structural damage identification
  • SHM-oriented building materials
  • Smart sensors
  • In-suit/wireless/online sensing networks
  • Big data/artificial intelligence technologies
  • Modal analysis and signal processing
  • Load identification and monitoring
  • Structural model updating
  • Vibration isolation and control
  • Failure prognostics and early warning
  • Structural health management
  • Structural condition/integrity/safety assessment

Prof. Dr. Wei Xu
Prof. Dr. Rafal Burdzik
Dr. Mahmoud Bayat
Prof. Dr. Maosen Cao
Guest Editors

Dr. Nizar Faisal Alkayem
Guest Editor Assistant

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The Study of Localized Crack-Induced Effects of Nonlinear Vibro-Acoustic Modulation
Materials 2023, 16(4), 1653; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16041653 - 16 Feb 2023
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The nonlinear interaction of longitudinal vibration and ultrasound in beams with cracks is investigated. The central focus is on the localization effect of this interaction, i.e., the locally enhanced nonlinear vibro-acoustic modulation. Both numerical and experimental investigations are undertaken. The finite element (FE) [...] Read more.
The nonlinear interaction of longitudinal vibration and ultrasound in beams with cracks is investigated. The central focus is on the localization effect of this interaction, i.e., the locally enhanced nonlinear vibro-acoustic modulation. Both numerical and experimental investigations are undertaken. The finite element (FE) method is used to investigate different crack models, including the bi-linear crack, open crack, and breathing crack. A parametric study is performed considering different crack depths, locations, and boundary conditions in a two-dimensional beam model. The study shows that observed nonlinearities (i.e., nonlinear crack–wave modulations) are particularly strong in the vicinity of the crack, allowing not only for crack localization but also for the separation of the crack-induced nonlinearity from other sources of nonlinearity. Full article
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Probabilistic Structural Model Updating with Modal Flexibility Using a Modified Firefly Algorithm
Materials 2022, 15(23), 8630; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15238630 - 03 Dec 2022
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Structural model updating is one of the most important steps in structural health monitoring, which can achieve high-precision matching between finite element models and actual engineering structures. In this study, a Bayesian model updating method with modal flexibility was presented, where a modified [...] Read more.
Structural model updating is one of the most important steps in structural health monitoring, which can achieve high-precision matching between finite element models and actual engineering structures. In this study, a Bayesian model updating method with modal flexibility was presented, where a modified heuristic optimization algorithm named modified Nelder–Mead firefly algorithm (m-NMFA) was proposed to find the most probable values (MPV) of model parameters for the maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) estimate. The proposed m-NMFA was compared to the original firefly algorithm (FA), the genetic algorithm (GA), and the particle swarm algorithm (PSO) through the numerical illustrative examples of 18 benchmark functions and a twelve-story shear frame model. Then, a six-story shear frame model test was performed to identify the inter-story stiffness of the structure in the original and the damage states, respectively. By comparing the two, the position and extent of damage were accurately found and quantified in a probabilistic manner. In terms of optimization, the proposed m-NMFA was powerful to find the MPVs much faster and more accurately. In the incomplete measurement case, only the m-NMFA achieved target damage identification results. The proposed Bayesian model updating method has the advantages of high precision, fast convergence, and strong robustness in MPV finding and the ability of parameter uncertainty quantification. Full article
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