Selected Papers from the 5th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring and Integrity Management (ICSHMIM 2020)

Dear Colleagues,

The 5th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring and Integrity Management (ICSHMIM 2020) will be held from 28 to 29 November 2020 in Kunming, China, and the conference website can be found at http://www.icshmim.com/2020/en/index.aspx. The 5th ICSHMIM is sponsored by the China Instrument and Control Society (CIS) and organized by the Equipment Structural Health Monitoring and Prognostics branch of CIS. This conference will provide an important platform for networking scholars, engineers, and students to showcase their innovative research outcomes, transfer new knowledge, and boost interdisciplinary collaboration in areas of structural health monitoring and integrity management.

This Special Issue of Sensors (IF: 3.275, ISSN 1424-8220) will collect a number of outstanding papers presented at the ICSHMIM. Conference participants are invited to submit extended versions of their conference papers to this Special Issue.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Advanced and smart sensors/sensing technology;
• In-suit/wireless/online sensing networks;
• Advanced structural health monitoring (SHM) technology and systems;
• Nondestructive testing and evaluation;
• Processing techniques of big data fusion, storage, and mining;
• Artificial intelligence/edge computing/cloud computing;
• Structure health state diagnosis and performance evaluation;
• Theories and techniques of structure damage identification;
• Techniques and methods of structure damage/fault/failure prediction;
• Intelligent health management;
• Structure design and intellectual structure based on SHM;
• Structure health monitoring technique and system application;
• Structure health monitoring standards and system certification.

Prof. Dr. Keqin Ding
Prof. Dr. Hoon Sohn
Prof. Dr. Dragoslav Sumarac
Dr. Ching Tai Ng
Prof. Dr. Maosen Cao
Dr. Ye Lu
Guest Editors

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