Advanced Structural Damage Detection: From Theory to Engineering Applications

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is the interdisciplinary engineering field devoted to the monitoring and assessment of structural health and integrity. SHM technology integrates non-destructive evaluation techniques using remote sensing and smart materials to create smart self-monitoring structures characterized by increased reliability and long life. Its applications are primarily systems with critical demands concerning performance where classical onsite assessment is both difficult and expensive.

Advanced Structural Damage Detection: From Theory to Engineering Applications is written by academic experts in the field and provides students, engineers and other technical specialists with a comprehensive review of recent developments in various monitoring techniques and their applications to SHM. Contributing to an area which is the subject of intensive research and development, this book offers both theoretical principles and feasibility studies for a number of SHM techniques.

Key features:

• Takes a multidisciplinary approach and provides a comprehensive review of main SHM techniques
• Presents real case studies and practical application of techniques for damage detection in different types of structures
• Presents a number of new/novel data processing algorithms
• Demonstrates real operating prototypes

Advanced Structural Damage Detection: From Theory to Engineering Applications is a comprehensive reference for researchers and engineers and is a useful source of information for graduate students in mechanical and civil engineering

Tadeusz Stepinski, Signals and Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
Tadeusz Stepinski is currently a Professor at Uppsala University, and since 2012 has also been a Professor at AGH University of Science and Technology in Poland. He has been active in the area of non-destructive testing and signal processing since the 1980s and has authored circa 140 technical publications.

Tadeusz Uhl, The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, University of Science and Technology, Poland
Tadeusz Uhl is a Professor at AGH University of Science and Technology in Poland. His main research areas are system identification, inverse problems, SHM and mechatronics. He has written circa 300 technical papers.

Wieslaw Staszewski, The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, University of Science and Technology, Poland
Wieslaw Staszewski is a Professor at AGH University of Science and Technology in Poland. He has authored circa 280 publications, predominantly in the areas of damage detection and advanced signal processing. He has written and edited a book, authored circa 90 journal papers and is also an editor and associate editor of five journals. He was jointly awarded the “2004 Person of the Year” title by Structural Health Monitoring journal for outstanding contribution in the field of SHM.