Advances in Sensors for Sustainable Infrastructure: Inspection, Monitoring, and Maintenance
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Fault Diagnosis & Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2025 | Viewed by 27
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ultrasonic testing; concrete crack; concrete delamination; concrete deterioration; infrastructure deterioration; non-linear material response; wireless sensing and network; sustainable urban infrastructure/smart infrastructure; structural health monitoring/damage assessment of infrastructure; image processing; acquisition, organization, and interpretation of large amounts of data; automated inspection; numerical modeling/simulation; sensor technology—sensor development/advanced integrated sensing; visualization technique—image processing for flaw detection/image reconstruction algorithms; infrastructure rehabilitation and maintenance
Interests: AI-based methods for structural health monitoring and dynamic response; random vibrations; hysteretic systems; seismic isolation; reliability and resilience
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As global infrastructure ages and the demand for sustainable development intensifies, innovative sensor technologies are emerging as critical tools to ensure the safety, resilience, and environmental efficiency of built environments. This Special Issue, "Advances in Sensors for Sustainable Infrastructure: Inspection, Monitoring, and Maintenance", seeks to highlight cutting-edge research and practical applications of sensor-based solutions addressing the challenges of modern infrastructure systems. By focusing on inspection, real-time monitoring, and lifecycle maintenance, this collection aims to bridge the gap between technological innovation and sustainable new construction with existing infrastructure practices.
The topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Advanced sensor methods for inspecting bridges and infrastructure;
- Real-time monitoring of construction processes;
- Practices for monitoring decarbonization in construction, reducing the embodied carbon in materials;
- Machine learning for predictive maintenance and risk assessment;
- Robotics and automation in infrastructure maintenance.
Dr. Suyun Ham
Prof. Dr. Mohammad Noori
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced sensors
- sustainable infrastructure
- structural health monitoring
- predictive maintenance
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