Advances in Structural Health Monitoring for Infrastructures

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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