Symmetry, Asymmetry and Intelligent Structural Inspection: Applications in Engineering
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "F: Engineering and Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2027 | Viewed by 90
Editors
Interests: finite element analysis; structural health monitoring; tunnel structures; deformation analysis; underground space; damage detection; vision-based measurement
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Interests: finite element analysis; structural health monitoring; structural engineering; terrestrial laser scanning; deformation monitoring
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Symmetric and asymmetric features widely exist in engineering structures and sensing tasks, serving as essential structural priors for intelligent structural inspection. In scenarios including multi-source heterogeneous monitoring, complex condition monitoring, target recognition and structural damage inspection, rationally exploring, utilizing or breaking inherent symmetric constraints can effectively boost system adaptability and robustness, while improving model interpretability and practical engineering performance.
This Special Issue aims to gather cutting-edge research on symmetric modeling, asymmetric modeling and intelligent structural inspection. It welcomes high-quality contributions covering theoretical frameworks, computational methods, advanced models and experimental techniques for intelligent structural inspection, as well as their diversified engineering applications.
We welcome papers that cover a broad range of topics including (but not limited to):
- Intelligent sensing;
- Multi-sensor monitoring;
- Machine vision;
- Structural inspection;
- Deformation monitoring;
- Structural damage inspection.
Prof. Dr. Xiangyang Xu
Dr. Hao Yang
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- intelligent sensing
- multi-sensor monitoring
- machine vision
- structural inspection
- deformation monitoring
- structural damage inspection
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