Smart Sensing Technology for Structural Health Monitoring
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Fault Diagnosis & Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2025 | Viewed by 1211
Special Issue Editor
Interests: structural health monitoring; structural dynamics; structural engineering; advanced signal processing and sensor technology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Large-scale civil infrastructures such as bridges, buildings, dams, wind turbines and pipeline systems face potential damage related to ageing and various operational and environmental loads. Structural health monitoring is critical to prevent catastrophic structural collapse and provide quantitative data for effective and affordable lifecycle structural management and maintenance. Enormous research efforts and resources have been devoted to developing reliable structural health monitoring technologies. The current two main areas are methods for effective data collection and the reliable evaluation of structural conditions from measured data. The field implementation of traditional contact-based wired sensors poses various economic and technical challenges. With the advance of the wireless sensing technology, there has been a paradigm shift toward IoT sensor technology. With the recent development of sensing and robotic technologies, smart sensing technology has attracted interest of a great many researchers and engineers, especially in computer vision techniques, IoT sensing technology, mobile sensory system, and embedded sensing technology. This Special Issue will capture the latest research and development in all areas of smart sensing technology for structural health monitoring and its practical applications.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Computer vision techniques;
- IoT sensors;
- Mobile sensory systems;
- Robotic sensory systems;
- Embedded sensing technology;
- Intelligent sensing technology;
- Optimization of sensor placement;
- Sensor fault detection;
- Advanced measurement technology.
Dr. Xinqun Zhu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- smart sensing technology
- structural health monitoring
- computer vision
- IoT sensors
- sensor fault detection
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