Selected Papers from the 15th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM 2025)
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025
Special Issue Editor
Interests: structural health monitoring; design of integrated structures; smart structures; design and damage tolerance of composites structures; multi-functional materials
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Dear Colleagues,
The rapid growth of AI-related technologies and increasing demands for safety and sustainability have incentivized industries to attain greater autonomy and mobility, with a focus on renewable energy and efficiency. This, in turn, has emphasized the importance of monitoring structural health conditions to ensure safety and autonomy, particularly for aerospace, heavy machinery, and civil infrastructures.
The 15th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM) will be held on September 9-11, 2025, at Stanford University, CA, USA. The main theme of the 2025 IWSHM is "SHM: Ensuring Mobility and Autonomy with Sustainability.” This workshop will review SHM progress over the last two decades and examine opportunities for future SHM research and applications. It aims to assess the current state-of-the-art technologies and identify key breakthroughs and emerging R&D challenges that are critical to structural health monitoring. This workshop also seeks to promote the exchange of information and cross-fertilization across multiple platforms.
This Special Issue is part of a collaboration with the 15th IWSHM. We invite authors of high-quality papers on the integration of SHM with condition-based maintenance and operational performance, enhancing mobility, autonomy, and sustainability, to submit extended versions of their work to this Special Issue for publication.
Prof. Dr. Fu-Kuo Chang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- SHM
- composite materials
- civil infrastructures
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