Health Monitoring and Non-Destructive Evaluation of Structures

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue focuses on the important engineering problem of ensuring the safety of structures. No matter if the structure is aeronautical, civil, mechanical, marine or any other, all structures are prone to damage and need inspection and monitoring. Nondestructive evaluation (NDE) and structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques are being developed for this purpose. Damage detection, assessment, and prediction of the remaining structure life are important topics focused on by researchers around the world. With this Special Issue, we would like to create the possibility to present the latest findings, achievements, and trends in this field. We invite manuscripts presenting new findings and developments under the Special Issue topic. Manuscripts dealing with all aspects of research are welcome, since numerical and experimental studies, signal processing algorithms, optimization approaches, equipment development, as well as validations on real structures are equally important. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

1. Elastic/guided waves;
2. Electromechanical impedance;
3. Ultrasonics;
4. Fiber optic-based sensing;
5. Vibrations;
6. Contact and noncontact measurement methods;
7. Sensor/actuator placement/networks/arrays;
8. Signal processing;
9. Metallic, composite structures;
10. Riveted, bolted, adhesive bond assessment;
11. Damage localization and assessment;
12. Probabilistic SHM approaches.

Prof. Dr. Pawel H. Malinowski
Prof. Dr. Julian Sierra Perez
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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