Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring, New Trends and Technologies
This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Structural health monitoring (SHM) protocols play a crucial role in the management of buildings and infrastructures. The increasing aging of civil and industrial facilities demands effective and reliable monitoring procedures for the prompt detection of structural damage and to increase the knowledge of these structures' mechanical behavior over time.
SHM procedures have greatly benefited from recent advances in sensor technology. This Special Issue will highlight the contribution of innovative sensor technologies in the field, with particular regard to smart sensors (MEMS transducers, mobile devices, etc.), rotational sensors, fiber optic sensors, and high sensitivity seismometric instruments. The main topics are summarized in the keywords below, but papers on different related subjects are also welcome.
Dr. Riccardo Mario Azzara
Dr. Maria Girardi
Dr. Daniele Pellegrini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- SHM of buildings, infrastructures, and architectural heritage
- Innovative sensors for SHM
- Real-time SHM protocols
- MEMS transducers for SHM
- Rotational sensors for SHM
- Fiber optic sensors for SHM
- High-sensitivity seismometric instrumentation
- Sensor networks
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Published Papers
Sensors - ISSN 1424-8220