**Preface**

Buildings play an indispensable role in urban development. As typical structures of transportation buildings, bridges serve as crucial nodes in connecting different regions, promoting economic growth, and ensuring social security. However, with the extension of their service life, the performance of bridges will inevitably decline. Performance monitoring and evaluation are crucial during the life cycle of bridges. The accelerating convergence of civil engineering, materials science, and artificial intelligence has sparked the interest of researchers from different disciplines in the emerging field of bridge state perception.

This book covers topics on condition monitoring and assessment of bridges, featuring 13 papers. These studies provide some novel methods, models, and technological applications for bridge condition monitoring and assessment, which are of great significance for the design, construction, and assessment of bridges.

> **Jingzhou Xin, Yan Jiang, Bo Wu, and Simon X. Yang** *Editors*
