Advances in Structural Monitoring for Civil Engineering
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2021) | Viewed by 2762
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades there has been a growing interest in predictive maintenance of civil engineering structures. New methodologies and new techniques have been developed to be able to monitor, with increasing precision, basic parameters of the structural behavior of these infrastructures that allow both guaranteeing their service limit state and predicting possible damage. In some countries, this monitoring is especially important because it is necessary to extend the useful life of these infrastructures due to their age, especially for viaducts, railway bridges, and other critical infrastructures such as large dams or even buildings of historical heritage. In infrastructures with a higher level of technology, such as oil platforms, wind turbines, or even particularly important pipelines, the monitoring plan is integrated into the construction project itself. The monitoring of these infrastructures has been based on the use of various types of sensors such as accelerometers, deformation and displacement sensors, and thermocouples. New developments based on sensors that integrate various technologies, including wireless technology, are being applied, allowing large-scale monitoring to be complemented by the monitoring of specific areas of the infrastructure. This Special Issue aims to collect new methodologies, new types of sensors, and advanced applications for monitoring all types of civil engineering infrastructures in order to collect the current advances in knowledge on this topic.
Prof. Salvador Ivorra
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sensor network
- sensor networks
- structural health monitoring
- autonomous structural inspection
- structural control
- smart structures
- remote sensing
