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Civil Structural Health Monitoring under Natural Hazards
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Civil Structural Health Monitoring under Natural Hazards

A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Hazards".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 4200

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Angelo Aloisio

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Department of Civil, Construction-Architectural and Environmental Engineering (DICEAA), University of L’Aquila, Piazzale Ernesto Pontieri, Monteluco di Roio, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
Interests: hysteresis modeling; structural dynamics; timber engineering; structural health monitoring; nonlinear dynamics; earthquake engineering
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Dr. Said Quqa

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Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna BO, Italy
Interests: structural health monitoring; modal identification; wireless sensor networks; signal processing; earthquake engineering; structural dynamics
Dr. Pier Francesco Giordano

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Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering (DABC), Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
Interests: structural health monitoring; value of information; risk management
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Dr. Luke J. Prendergast

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Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
Interests: structural health monitoring; vibration-based bridge scour monitoring; offshore engineering; structural dynamics and geotechnical engineering
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Civil structures and infrastructure are continuously subjected to natural hazards, including seismic activity, flooding, and wind, which may cause degradation of the structural performance and even lead to collapse. Currently, decisions related to maintenance and emergency management mainly consist of heuristic methods relying on the results of visual inspections and expert opinion. In recent years, infrastructure asset managers have been promoting permanent static and dynamic monitoring systems. Information acquired by these systems, such as loads and environmental actions, structural performance, and deterioration level, can reduce uncertainties in estimating the serviceability level of structures. With this information, asset agencies may implement optimal structural management decisions guaranteeing an adequate level of structural safety. Although structural health monitoring (SHM) has been gaining increasing interest in the research community, several aspects need further investigation.

This Special Issue invites high-quality contributions addressing the current state of the art, recent developments, and future perspectives in SHM in hazardous environments. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Monitoring under hydro-geological hazard, e.g., considering flood, scour, and landslides;
  • Seismic SHM;
  • The influence of soil-structure interaction in SHM;
  • Emerging technologies for monitoring structures, infrastructures, and ground motion, e.g., unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and satellites;
  • Informed structural management under multiple natural hazards.

The authors can contribute by presenting both theoretical papers and case studies.

Dr. Angelo Aloisio
Dr. Said Quqa
Dr. Pier Francesco Giordano
Dr. Luke J. Prendergast
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Structural health monitoring
  • Hydro-geological hazard
  • Earthquake
  • Soil-structure interaction
  • Informed decision making

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Assessment of the Response of Trenched–Backfilled Pipelines to Strike-Slip Faults: An Analytical Approach
by Mozhgan Asgarihajifirouz, Xiaoyu Dong and Hodjat Shiri
Geosciences 2023, 13(2), 47; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/geosciences13020047 - 31 Jan 2023
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Trenched pipelines may experience significant lateral displacement due to natural geohazards such as strike slip-fault movements, landslides, etc. Using pre-excavated soil to backfill trenches is a cost-effective option to protect pipelines against large deformations. These backfilling materials are heavily remolded and therefore softer [...] Read more.
Trenched pipelines may experience significant lateral displacement due to natural geohazards such as strike slip-fault movements, landslides, etc. Using pre-excavated soil to backfill trenches is a cost-effective option to protect pipelines against large deformations. These backfilling materials are heavily remolded and therefore softer than the native ground. Therefore, the shear strength difference between the backfill and native ground may affect the pipeline–backfill–trench interaction and the failure mechanism of the surrounding soil. By assuming a simplified uniform soil domain, the influence of softer pre-excavated backfilling material on the pipeline–backfill–trench interaction is neglected in the analytical methods that are usually used in the structural health monitoring of buried pipelines. In this study, the effects of trenching and backfilling were incorporated into an analytical solution for a fast assessment of the pipeline response at the early stages of engineering design projects and structural health monitoring. In comparison with other methods, this methodology provides a convenient and efficient method for computing pipeline strain and deflection curves in geohazardous regions. Full article
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Understanding Sediment Dynamics at a Shipwreck Site Using CFD Modelling
by Gary Littler, Mark Coughlan, Jan Majcher and Jennifer Keenahan
Geosciences 2022, 12(10), 369; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/geosciences12100369 - 7 Oct 2022
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Shipwrecks are important cultural heritage sites offshore. In many instances, given their often long-term emplacement on the seafloor, they offer natural laboratories to study complex interactions between human-induced obstacles and seabed dynamics. Such interactions and induced sediment mobility also pose significant threats to [...] Read more.
Shipwrecks are important cultural heritage sites offshore. In many instances, given their often long-term emplacement on the seafloor, they offer natural laboratories to study complex interactions between human-induced obstacles and seabed dynamics. Such interactions and induced sediment mobility also pose significant threats to offshore engineering infrastructure, such as turbine monopile foundations. Traditional methods can struggle to capture the nuance of these processes, with real-world surveys measuring effects only after installation, and laboratory models suffering from scale-down inaccuracies. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling offers an effective means of investigating the effects of obstacles on seabed dynamics, and by using shipwrecks as proxies for infrastructure, it can utilize long-term datasets to verify its predictions. In this study, high-resolution temporal bathymetric data were used in, and to verify, CFD modelling to investigate the interactions between hydro- and sediment dynamics at a shipwreck site in a tidally dominated wreck site. From this comparison, simulations of bed shear stress and scalar transport correlate well with known areas of erosion and deposition, serving as a basis for future scour prediction studies and creating effective tools in offshore renewable infrastructure planning and de-risking. Full article
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