Smart Materials for Health of Civil Engineering Structures

Call for Papers

Structural health monitoring (SHM) and security monitoring are two important challenges for the modern world in recent time. The monitoring of existing aero, civil, and mechanical (ACM) structures has become a regular feature as it helps improve world economy in two ways: first directly by providing longevity to all the structures and secondly by saving millions of dollars via prevention of untimely failure. The field of SHM is very vast, consisting of traditional monitoring methods (such as visual inspection, static/dynamic structural response methods) as well as smart system-based-methods. The last few years have witnessed rapid development in the areas of nondestructive evaluation (NDE) by the emergence of several smart-material-based techniques. The smart materials like piezoceramic sensors, shape memory alloys, fiber optical sensors, and so forth have proved to be significant alternatives to conventional methods. The main focus of this special issue will be on the new and existing smart material applications for assessing the health of civil engineering structures. The special issue will become an international forum for researchers to summarize the most recent developments and ideas in the field of smart materials for civil infrastructures like dams, bridges, tall buildings, pavements, foundations, tunnels, and so on with a special emphasis given to the technical and observational results obtained within the last decade. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Actuators and sensors
• Smart material applications
• Wireless technology
• Sensor network
• Structural health monitoring
• Civil infrastructure systems
• Energy harvesting of sensors
• Self-diagnostic sensors
• Real-time nondestructive evaluation and testing
• Future strategies in development of smart sensors

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Lead Guest Editor

• Venu Gopal Madhav Annamdas, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798

Guest Editors

• Chee Kiong Soh, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798
• Seunghee Park, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 300 Cheoncheon-dong, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-doi 440-746, Korea
• Kiran Kishore Kumar H. Annamdas, Stratford University, 7777 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22043, USA
• Chandu Parimi, Automated Engineering Services Corp., Suite 340, 40 Shuman Boulevard., Naperville, IL 60563, USA