Deterioration of infrastructures under dynamic effects becomes a critical issue with regard to both safety and economic concerns. Deterioration itself is inevitable, but condition assessment technology and nondestructive evaluation techniques could provide solutions to ensure public safety by means of detecting damage before serious and expensive degradation consequences occur. The novelty of this issue is the use of dynamic effects and its response due to the anomalies in a structure under testing.

We invite investigators to contribute original research articles as well as review articles that will stimulate the continuing efforts to understand waveform-based condition assessments in civil engineering. We are particularly interested in articles describing the new conceptual ideas and methods for the practical solution of applied dynamic problems for the health monitoring in civil structures. We aim to address the needs of practicing engineers, mathematicians, and researchers and to serve as a focal point for the quick communication of ideas.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Inverse problems in vibrating infrastructures: waveform based techniques for source or system identification for civil engineers
• Vibration control techniques for structural health monitoring: condition assessment technology and nondestructive evaluation techniques focused on civil structures
• Advanced materials for protecting damage from shocks or blast loading, especially for civil structures
• Dynamic behaviors of bridge-type structures under various traffic loads: linear and nonlinear effects