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Structural Health Monitoring for a Sustainable Built Environment

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (18 August 2022) | Viewed by 2899

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Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Interests: structural health monitoring; sensor technology; bridge inspection

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce a new special issue "Structural Health Monitoring for a Sustainable Built Environment" in the journal Sustainability. As people spend most of their time in built environment, a reliable and sustainable built environment is the key to human safety and health. This topic talks about structural health monitoring (SHM) and how SHM contributes to a sustainable built environment.

The Special Issue invites disciplinary-specific, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary contributions, including, but not limited to, the following topics:

  • Sensing technology in structural health monitoring (SHM);
  • Condition assessment of built structures;
  • Structural health monitoring (SHM) and maintenance;
  • Data mining, artificial intelligence in structural health monitoring (SHM) systems.

Prof. Dr. Chang Peter C.
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • structural health monitoring
  • condition assessment

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Finite Element Modeling Approaches, Experimentally Assessed, for the Simulation of Guided Wave Propagation in Composites
by Alessandro De Luca, Donato Perfetto, Antonio Polverino, Antonio Aversano and Francesco Caputo
Sustainability 2022, 14(11), 6924; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14116924 - 06 Jun 2022
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Abstract
Today, structural health monitoring (SHM) systems based on guided wave (GW) propagation represent an effective methodology for understating the structural integrity of primary and secondary structures, also made of composite materials. However, the sensitivity to damage detection promoted by these systems can be [...] Read more.
Today, structural health monitoring (SHM) systems based on guided wave (GW) propagation represent an effective methodology for understating the structural integrity of primary and secondary structures, also made of composite materials. However, the sensitivity to damage detection promoted by these systems can be altered by such factors as the geometry of the monitored parts, as well as the environmental and operational conditions (EOCs). Experimental investigations are fundamental but require a long time period and are costly, especially for tests in real-life scenarios. Experimentally validated simulations can help designers to improve SHM effectiveness due to the possibility of further broadening study on the different geometries, load cases, and material types with less effort. From this point of view, this paper presents two finite element (FE) modeling approaches for the simulation of GW propagation in composite panels. The case study consists of a flat and a curved composite panel. The two approaches herein investigated are based on implicit and explicit finite element analysis (FEA) formulations. The comparison of the predicted measures against the experimental dataset allowed the assessment of the levels of accuracy provided by both modeling approaches with respect to the dispersion curves. Furthermore, to assess the different curvature sensitivities of the proposed numerical and experimental approaches, the extracted dispersion curves for both flat and curved panels were compared. Full article
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