Fiber Optic Sensing in Civil Engineering: Recent Applications and Developments in Structural and Geotechnical Monitoring
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 824
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fiber optic sensors; civil structural health monitoring; strain-based shape sensing methodologies
Interests: distributed fiber optic sensing; machine learning; condition based & predictive maintenance; sensor testing & calibration
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Civil structural health monitoring has become significantly more important within recent decades due to the rapidly growing demand for new constructions worldwide with respect to limited space and increased sustainability, as well as longer service lifetimes of existing structures. Knowledge about the structural performance is essential to the planning and design of condition-based maintenance works. Fiber optic sensing can be beneficial to obtain internal structural characteristics such as strain, temperature, or vibration over long distances. Discrete fiber Bragg gratings or even fully distributed sensing cables are directly embedded inside or attached along the infrastructure, which enables overall assessment of the structural behavior and performance.
The Special Issue invites researchers and experienced engineers to submit their original articles and reviews discussing recent research developments or real-scale monitoring approaches based on fiber optic sensing in civil engineering applications.
Dr. Christoph Monsberger
Prof. Dr. Werner Lienhart
Dr. Bradley Forbes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- distributed fiber optic sensing
- fiber Bragg gratings
- structural health monitoring
- field applications
- large-scale monitoring projects
- physical testing
- observational method
