Structural Health Monitoring & Nondestructive Testing

Dear Colleagues,

The aim of the International Symposium on Structural Health Monitoring and Nondestructive Testing is to provide an overview of the latest breakthroughs in SHM and NDT and their interactions with various industrial sectors. Thanks to the success of the 2^nd (2018, Saarbrücken, Germany) and of the 1^st (2013, Lyon, France) symposia, it was decided to hold a third event with oral presentations, poster session and an industrial exhibition in Québec City, Canada on 14 and 15 of May 2020. SHM-NDT 2020 will be held back-to-back with the Annual General Meeting of the initiative, see www.ondutycanada.ca. Cross-fertilization between the two events is highly encouraged.

The Symposium is organized by Université Laval in partnership with the Canadian Institute for NonDestructive Evaluation (CINDE), the German Society for Nondestructive Testing (DGZfP e.V.), the French Society for Nondestructive Testing (Cofrend), INSA-Lyon, Fraunhofer IZFP, Fraunhofer EZRT.

This joint Special Issue is expected to select excellent papers in and out SHM-NDT 2020 in the following topics, but not limited to:

1) Structural health monitoring;
2) NDT sensors, detectors and sources: ultrasound, acoustical emission, X-ray, thermography, eddy currents, EMAT etc;
3) Modeling and simulation;
4) Reliability, probability of detection;
5) Sensor data fusion;
6) Reconstruction techniques;
7) Defect detection & localization methods;
8) Signal and image processing.

All papers (in and out SHM-NDT 2020) must be submitted by the deadline (see above). All selected and peer-reviewed papers will be organized as in a dedicated book with an ISBN number.

Prof. Xavier Maldague
Prof. Valérie Kaftandjian-Doudet
Prof. Ahmad Osman
Dr. Bastien Chapuis
Prof. dr. ir. Gunther Steenackers
Dr. Hai Zhang
Guest Editors

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