Structural Health Monitoring for Sustainable Structures and Infrastructures

Most of the key structures within highway and railway systems in Europe and North America were built after the Second World War during the economic boom. This heritage of existing infrastructures and buildings is currently subject to natural and gradual aging processes and progressive deterioration.

On the other hand, new design and construction standards require performance to be more advanced, particularly within the seismic field, and tend to render old structures as obsolete.

One of the most commonly used ways to control aging and deterioration involves the implementation and installation of diagnostic systems to estimate construction safety levels and operating conditions.

Adequately scheduled maintenance can then be applied to ensure that safety levels and structural performance are in accordance with standards requirements.

Structural health monitoring is currently a highly active research field in civil engineering, as many techniques used in other engineering fields are being transferred to large-scale infrastructural systems.   

The Special Issue, “Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) for Sustainable Structures and Infrastructures”, is pleased to welcome novel contributions on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

• Structural system identification;
• Structural model updating;
• Structural condition assessment;
• Prediction of remaining service life;
• Proactive maintenance using SHM;
• The effect of SHM on life cycle assessment;
• The interface between digital twins and SHM systems;
• Transer learning in SHM;
• Machine learning techniques for SHM;
• Bayesian approaches for SHM;
• Edge computing for SHM;
• New sensors and their application to structures and infrastructures.

Dr. Francescantonio Lucà
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bertagnoli
Guest Editors

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• structural health monitoring
• structures
• infrastructures
• maintenance
• sustainability
• sensors
• life cycle assessment
• machine learning
• identification
• model updating
• service life