Dear Colleagues,

The monitoring of structures, especially civil engineering structures and infrastructures, has a huge impact at the social and economic level. The study of its performance in different buildings began in the late 20th century, and its development has increased considerably in the last years, resulting in the implementation of numerous prototypes in existent structures.

The monitoring and identification of potential structural damage and its evolution requires the development of advanced structural sensing networks and monitoring techniques. Within the detection technologies, optical fiber sensors (OFS) present advantages over several other technologies. Recent advances in the field of optoelectronics have increased and highlighted the importance of OFS in relation to electrical devices. These have valuable features such as immunity to electromagnetic interference, high sensitivity and resolution, multiplexing capabilities, absence of electrical power in the measurement area, reduced size and mass, resistance to extreme environments (chemicals), and minimal aesthetic invasion (important for historic structures open to the public).

This Special Issue will present and discuss all types of OFS with potential use in structural monitoring. The manuscripts should cover, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Low-cost, miniaturized, selective, and multiparameter optical devices;
• SHM case studies using optical fiber technologies;
• OFS for physical, chemical, and environmental SHM;
• Fiber interferometric and polarimetric sensors;
• Nano- and micro-structured and photonic crystal fiber sensors;
• OFS Multiplexing and sensor networking;
• Distributed sensing;
• Advances in interrogation techniques for optical sensing;
• Smart structures and sensors;
• Bragg gratings, Fabry Perot cavities, plasmonic and Mach Zehnder interferometers;
• Damage detection algorithms and characterization using optical fiber technologies.

Dr. Paulo Antunes
Dr. Hugo Rodrigues
Guest Editors

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• structural health monitoring
• optical fiber sensors
• smart structures and sensors
• damage detection