Structural Health Monitoring in Composites Structures
A special issue of Applied Mechanics (ISSN 2673-3161).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 November 2023) | Viewed by 1788
Special Issue Editor
Interests: damage sensing; multi-functional composites; high strain rate characterization; dynamic fracture mechanics
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, structural health monitoring (SHM) has been more integrated into the infrastructure industry with increasing use in a wide range of applications. Several health-monitoring concepts, such as novel non-destructive testing (NDT) technologies, embedded sensors, and self-sensing material systems, etc., have been explored in civil infrastructures lately. The aim of this Special Issue on “Structural Health Monitoring in Composites Structures” is to showcase the most recent and relevant advances in the damage-sensing field, oriented toward the following topics (but not limited to them):
- Self-sensing composite materials using carbon-based or metallic nano-inclusions;
- Embedded sensors (fiber optics, smart piezoelectric films or coatings);
- Non-destructive testing techniques (ultrasonic, thermography, x-ray, laser stereography, acoustic emission, and computed tomography);
- Vibration-based damage-sensing methodologies;
- Guided-wave structural health monitoring;
- Machine learning and deep vision algorithms;
- Inverse problem for structural health monitoring;
- Wireless sensor networks for continuous structural health monitoring.
Prof. Dr. Vijaya B. Chalivendra
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- self-sensing
- embedded sensors
- non-destructive techniques
- vibrations
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