The non-destructive evaluation of civil engineering structures in reinforced concrete is becoming an increasingly important issue in this field of engineering. This book proposes innovative ways to deal with this problem, through the characterization of concrete durability indic…
This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) and more broadly in the fields of smart materials and intelligent systems, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 10th Europe…
"Targeted at researchers and practitioners in the field of science and engineering, this book strives to provide a self-sustained introduction to the genre of real time structural health monitoring. As most work till date have shown to implement algorithms that require windowing…
Mathematical preliminaries -- Single-sensor real time damage detection techniques : RSSA and its variants -- Multi-sensor real time damage detection techniques (A) : RPCA -- Multi-sensor real time damage detection techniques (B) : RPCA-TVAR -- Multi-sensor real time damage detec…
"Targeted at researchers and practitioners in the field of science and engineering, this book strives to provide a self-sustained introduction to the genre of real time structural health monitoring. As most work till date have shown to implement algorithms that require windowing…
Targeted at researchers and practitioners in the field of science and engineering, the book provides an introduction to real time structural health monitoring. Most work to date is based on algorithms that require windowing of the accumulated data, this work presents a coherent …
The modern structural health monitoring (SHM) paradigm of transforming in situ, real-time data acquisition into actionable decisions regarding structural performance, health state, maintenance, or life cycle assessment has been accelerated by the rapid growth of "big data" avail…
This volume gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of structural health monitoring, as presented at the 8th Civil Structural Health Monitoring Workshop (CSHM-8), held on March 31April 2, 2021. It discusses emerging challenges in civil SHM and more broadly in th…
The main purpose of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is the assessment of structural conditions in aerospace, mechanical and civil systems. In structural engineering, damage is defined as any permanent change in the structural and geometric properties of a system caused by an …
Structural health monitoring (SHM) research is a critical tool for keeping up to date on the state of structures and understanding their behavior over time. One specific focus of SHM research is fatigue assessment, which involves estimating the remaining life of structures that …
This dissertation presents a novel “Intelligent Parameter Varying” (IPV) health monitoring and damage detection technique that accurately detects the existence, location, and time of damage occurrence without any assumptions about the constitutive nature of structural non-linear…
Video cameras have become ubiquitous for data collection for their low price, agility, high spatial sensing resolution, and non-contact. This dissertation will broaden and develop the application of vision based approaches on dealing with scientific and engineering problems incl…
The threaded fasteners are one of the most versatile methods for assembly of structural components. For example, in bridges large bolts are used to fix base columns and small bolts are used to support access ladders. Naturally not all bolts are critical for the operation of the …