Advanced Sensing Technology in Structural Health Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

Public safety, cultural heritage preservation, and sustainable urban growth are among the most important political and technical concerns in advanced countries. Because of this, assessing the health and functionality of the current infrastructure and buildings represents a crucial need that enables decision-makers to set up the optimal lines of intervention and priorities to enhance patient safety and quality of life.

To develop integrated techniques and procedures investigating geotechnical and structural aspects as well as the diagnostics of buildings, distributed multi-sensor networks are required in order to cover entire structures or groups of structures in wide areas.

The high connectivity and digitalisation of modern cities, the availability of miniaturised and low-cost sensors, and the development of advanced processing algorithms, even based on artificial intelligence, and cloud platforms favour the development of sensor networks and integrated systems for acquisition, processing, transmission, and information storage.

However, numerous factors must be taken into account in order to develop robust and trustworthy techniques for structural health monitoring, as well as to guarantee widespread validity, easy field application, and affordability, including the following:

• Sensor type, number, and positioning;
• Uncertainty analysis;
• Validation of data;
• Metrological traceability;
• In field calibration of sensors;
• Validation of data processing techniques.

Other topics will also be considered if they are coherent with this theme.

Dr. Emanuela Natale
Prof. Dr. Giulio D'Emilia
Guest Editors

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• sensors
• sensor networks
• MEMS sensors
• measuring systems
• uncertainty evaluation
• structural monitoring
• artificial intelligence
• sensor fusion
• calibration