Structural Health Monitoring [Hardcover]

This book is organized around the various sensing techniques used to achieve structural health monitoring. Its main focus is on sensors, signal and data reduction methods and inverse techniques, which enable the identification of the physical parameters, affected by the presence of the damage, on which a diagnostic is established.

Structural Health Monitoring is not oriented by the type of applications or linked to special classes of problems, but rather presents broader families of techniques: vibration and modal analysis; optical fibre sensing; acousto-ultrasonics, using piezoelectric transducers; and electric and electromagnetic techniques.

Each chapter has been written by specialists in the subject area who possess a broad range of practical experience. The book will be accessible to students and those new to the field, but the exhaustive overview of present research and development, as well as the numerous references provided, also make it required reading for experienced researchers and engineers.

Foreword 11

Chapter 1. Introduction to Structural Health Monitoring 13
Daniel BALAGEAS

1.1. Definition of Structural Health Monitoring 13

1.2. Motivation for Structural Health Monitoring 15

1.3. Structural Health Monitoring as a way of making materials and structures smart 18

1.4. SHM and biomimetics 21

1.5. Process and pre-usage monitoring as a part of SHM 24

1.6. SHM as a part of system management 26

1.7. Passive and active SHM 27

1.8. NDE, SHM and NDECS 28

1.9. Variety and multidisciplinarity: the most remarkable characters of SHM 32

1.10. Birth of the Structural Health Monitoring Community 36

1.11. Conclusi