The field of structural health monitoring (SHM) is rapidly growing to provide robust diagnosis and prognosis of many engineering systems spanning from civil and transportation infrastructures to aerospace and military applications. The development and deployment of a robust SHM scheme is pivotal to ensure the safe and cost-effective operation of any engineering system.

The main focus of this special issue will be on SHM schemes devoted to civil structures which, after being successfully proven in the laboratory were or are currently deployed in the field for field testing and validation.

We invite authors to present original research articles for this special issue that aims at becoming an international forum for researchers and practitioners to summarize the most recent developments and ideas in the field of SHM for civil structures. The topics to be covered include, but are not limited to:

• Rails, pavement, and transportation infrastructures
• Pipeline and off-shore structures
• Bridges
• High-rise structures (buildings, TV towers, wind energy plants, etc.)
• Historical buildings
• Field implementation of NDE/NDT technologies
• Application of innovative sensors for civil infrastructure

Authors should focus on field observations obtained within the last three years. Researchers are encouraged to emphasize the challenges encountered during the transaction from the laboratory environment to the field. Few examples include: data corruption due to surroundings noise; presence of foreign objects along the transportation infrastructures during the inspection/monitoring and how such objects alter the interpretation of data; presence of electronic noise in wireless communication; poor accessibility to the structure being monitored/inspected; harsh temperature conditions that provide false positives.

Works that compare experimental field results with numerical simulations are welcome as well.

Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ace/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable: