Symmetry/Asymmetry in Structural Engineering, Structural Health Monitoring, and Non-Destructive Testing
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Engineering and Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 6
Special Issue Editors
Interests: vibrations; rotordynamics; structural dynamics; finite element method (FEM) modeling/analysis; experiments in lab models and real-life structures/turbomachinery; structural health monitoring (SHM); signal analysis/processing; non-destructive testing (NDT); damage/faults diagnosis/prognosis in structures/turbomachinery; design, selection, optimization, and testing of elements of structures and thermal/hydraulic machines
Interests: structural health monitoring; nonlinear methods; adaptive techniques; machine learning; deep learning; biomedical signal processing
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Interests: signal processing; machine learning; fault detection; electric machines; structural health monitoring
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are inviting submissions to a Special Issue titled “Symmetry/Asymmetry in Structural Engineering, Structural Health Monitoring, and Non-Destructive Testing”.
Civil infrastructure is indeed fundamental to the functioning and development of any society. It encompasses the essential physical structures that support daily life, economic activity, and overall well-being. These structures include transportation networks, utilities, and public facilities. In this sense, Structural Engineering is an essential field within civil engineering focused on the correct design, analysis, construction, and optimization of structures to ensure their stability, strength, and durability.
Unfortunately, civil infrastructure can accumulate damage over time as a result of diverse factors such as design/construction mistakes, overloads, wear and tear, and the degradation of the components that make up their structure. This damage is often not visible to the naked eye, which poses a significant challenge for effective monitoring and early detection. Even unnoticed defects in key structural elements can worsen gradually, leading to the rapid propagation of damage and, in the worst case, the sudden and catastrophic collapse of the entire structure. Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Non-destructive Testing (NDT)-based methods have shown promising results for assessing the integrity condition of symmetric/asymmetric civil infrastructure, which is fundamental for ensuring reliability, thus safeguarding the investments made in this kind of structures and the lives of users.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect excellent papers focused on developing strategies to improve the design, analysis, construction, and optimization of symmetric/asymmetric civil infrastructure to avoid defects from the outset, as well as on developing/applying methodologies based on SHM and NDT for identifying damage in those structures in order to avoid failures/collapses. Original research articles and reviews are welcome.
Dr. Jose M. Machorro-Lopez
Dr. Juan Pablo Amezquita-Sanchez
Dr. Martin Valtierra-Rodriguez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- symmetric/asymmetric civil infrastructure
- structural engineering
- design, analysis, construction, and optimization of structures
- structural dynamics
- finite element method (FEM)-based modeling/analysis for structures
- experiments in lab models and real-life structures
- structural health monitoring (SHM)
- vibration-based global methods
- parametric methods: modal strain energy (MSE), modal scale factor (MSF), modal assurance criterion (MAC), etc.
- non-parametric methods: fractal dimension (FD), wavelet transform (WT), Shannon entropy index (SEI), etc.
- signal analysis/processing
- non-destructive testing (NDT)
- local methods: acoustic emissions (AE), ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), etc.
- methods based on artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), artificial neural networks (ANNs), etc.
- damage/fault diagnosis/prognosis in structures
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