Special Issue on Innovative Monitoring Technologies for Civil Infrastructure Systems

摘要

Recent high profile failures have highlighted the need for effective structural health monitoring systems in civil engineering. A key requirement of effective monitoring is the installation of a large number of sensors for long term inspection and diagnostics. Currently the number, location, reading frequency and even type of sensors that engineers can use have been limited by the ability to obtain data from them. The possibility of communicating wirelessly with a network of sensors offers the ability to have high density, multi-parameter, real time data about the health of a structure, and will revolutionize the way engineers install and use sensors for monitoring and condition assessment of infrastructures.