Structural Health Monitoring and NDE Methodologies for Smart Materials and Structures II
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2024 | Viewed by 228
Special Issue Editor
Interests: the mechanical and thermal behaviour of advanced materials, such as metal matrix composites (MMCs), ceramic matrix composites (CMCs), carbon fibre-reinforced polymers (CFRPs), shape memory alloys (SMAs), smart materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Structural health monitoring (SHM) and non-destructive evaluation (NDE) methodologies have become essential for the comprehensive management of any system. NDE techniques have been extensively employed to monitor the behaviours, quality and safety of materials in almost every industry throughout their lifecycle stages. They have been applied in engineering, biomedicine, physics, nuclear technology, etc. The development of novel NDE methodologies is critical, driven by the use of innovative materials, smart materials and structures. SHM is an important technology that has numerous applications. SHM has been established due to the wide use of smart structures and includes various other disciplines such as sensors and actuators, structural dynamics, data acquisition, signal processing, etc. SHM and NDE methodologies can be employed to many types of SMART materials. Some material examples include piezoelectric, shape memory alloys and polymers, electroactive polymers, photovoltaics, thermoelectric, self-healing, etc.
This Special Issue of Applied Sciences focuses on new developments and advances of SHM strategies and NDE methodologies for SMART materials and structures. The aim of this issue is to attract research involving novel and advanced methodologies or/and new applications that will have an impact on the scientific community.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, NDE for damage assessment, defect detection, property evaluation and fracture monitoring based on various non-destructive approaches, SHM systems for SMART materials and structures, sensor technologies for SHM and NDE, sensor integration and networks, smart systems for evaluation and monitoring, nanotechnology applied to SHM, the integration of multiple NDE methodologies for enhanced monitoring, and interdisciplinary approaches for NDE and SHM.
Dr. Evangelos Z. Kordatos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- non-destructive testing and evaluation (NDT/NDE)
- structural health monitoring (SHM)
- SMART materials and structures
- sensors for SHM and NDT/NDE
- artificial intelligence for SHM and NDE
- data fusion and feature extraction
- NDE integration
