Advanced Structural Damage Detection (PDF)

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is the interdisciplinary
engineering field devoted to the monitoring and assessment of
structural health and integrity. SHM technology integrates
non-destructive evaluation techniques using remote sensing and
smart materials to create smart self-monitoring structures
characterized by increased reliability and long life. Its
applications are primarily systems with critical demands concerning
performance where classical onsite assessment is both difficult and
expensive.

Advanced Structural Damage Detection: From Theory to
Engineering Applications is written by academic experts in the
field and provides students, engineers and other technical
specialists with a comprehensive review of recent developments in
various monitoring techniques and their applications to SHM.
Contributing to an area which is the subject of intensive research
and development, this book offers both theoretical principles and
feasibility studies for a number of SHM techniques.

Key features:

* Takes a multidisciplinary approach and provides a comprehensive
review of main SHM techniques

* Presents real case studies and practical application of
techniques for damage detection in different types of
structures

* Presents a number of new/novel data processing algorithms

* Demonstrates real operating prototypes

Advanced Structural Damage Detection: From Theory to
Engineering Applications is a comprehensive reference for
researchers and engineers and is a useful source of information for
graduate students in mechanical and civil engineering