Submission deadline extended to June 30, 2023 for special issue Structural Health Monitoring and Performance Evaluation for Bridges. The deadline has been extended to allow for preparation of more data-based submissions; however, you are encouraged to submit your manuscripts as early as possible to facilitate a speedy review.
Bridge construction has rapidly increased worldwide since the last century. Bridges with varied forms and lengths have stridden across the deep valleys, wide rivers, and even oceans. Their operating environments vary from tropical to frigid zones, and from mountain areas to coastal regions. How to evaluate the health state and mechanical performance of a bridge has become a great challenge for the management and maintenance departments. To address such ill-posed and inverse problems, structural health monitoring (SHM) theories and practices have explosively developed in the last forty years. With the progress in sensing techniques and intelligence algorithms, especially the machine learning methodology, there are many successful engineering applications in SHM community. However, the deficiency of observation and diversity of potential damages have both impeded many theoretically-matured approaches from being applied to in-field bridges. Thus, monitoring and assessing the bridge state is still an open problem worldwide. To this end, recent progress related to bridge SHM and performance assessment is all welcome for this specific issue. The encouraged topics include but not limited to the following:
- vibration and wave propagation methods for damage assessment
- environmental and vehicular effects on bridges
- advanced signal processing and interpretation techniques
- smart materials, new sensor materials, and optimal sensor design
- data mining, data management
- artificial intelligence tools in SHM
- state and performance assessment
- structural integrity and remaining life predictions
- bridge maintenance and management
Schedule for the manuscript submission: until June 30, 2023.
Lead Guest Editors:
Limin Sun, Department of Bridge Engineering, Tongji University, China lmsun@tongji.edu.cn
Satish Nagarajaiah, Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering, Rice University, USA Satish.Nagarajaiah@rice.edu
Guest Editors:
Nagayama, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan nagayama@bridge.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Elsa Caetano, Department of Civil Engineering, Universidade of Porto, Portugues ecaetano@fe.up.pt
Ye Xia, Department of Bridge Engineering, Tongji University, China yxia@tongji.edu.cn
Yixian Li, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Department of Bridge Engineering, Tongji University, China liyixian@tongji.edu.cn
Guest Editors for the Special Issue:
Prof. Limin Sun, head of the department of bridge engineering, works at the School of Civil Engineering, Tongji University. He obtained his M.S and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Tokyo. He serves as the Vice-President of the international association of bridge and structure engineering (IABSE) since 2017 and the Secretariat of Chinese National Group. He is the member of International Society of Structural Health Monitoring and Intelligent Infrastructures (ISHMII), Member of International Steering Committee, Ease-Asian and Pacific, and Conference on Structure Engineering and Construction. He has published more than 400 papers. He was cited more than 4300 times and his H-index is 30 currently. Prof.Sun is an expert in structural health monitoring, vibration control, and earthquake engineering.
Dr. Satish Nagarajaiah, professor, works at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University. Prof.Nagarajaiah is the editor in chief for the journal <Structural Control Health Monitoring>, and managing editor of < Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE>. He has received more than 15 honors and awards from ASCE or the U.S government. Currently, He has published more than journal 180 papers, and two books. He has received more than 7120 citations and his H-index is 43. He is an expert in Structural health monitoring and system control. His research interests involve Smart Strain Sensing Skin for Noncontact Strain Maps, Sparse Structural System Identification, and Structural Control and Adaptive Stiffness Systems.
Dr. Tomonori Nagayama, professor, works at the School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He does research in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Railway Engineering. He has received seven international and domestic awards including those from the Japanese government and ASCE, since 2003. He has over three thousand citations on more than one hundred publications, with an H-index of 30. He specializes in structural monitoring, mobile sensing, wireless sensing, structural vibration, and data assimilation.
Dr. Elsa Caetano is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Porto
(FEUP). She obtained all her academic degrees at FEUP. She is a member of the Civil Engineering department Council and the Management Board of the R&D unit CONSTRUCT- Institute of R & R&D in Structures and Construction. She is the principal investigator of 6 national or European research projects and member of the research team in 14 projects. She is the associate editor of the Journal of Bridge Engineering, ASCE, and member of the editorial board of the journals: Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Journal of Engineering, from Hindawi; Structural Monitoring and Maintenance. She has published nearly 300 papers and received 3600 citations, with a Scopus H-index of 29. Her research area includes cable dynamics, footbridge vibrations, wind engineering, control of vibrations, structural dynamics.
Dr. Ye Xia is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Bridge Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 2011 and got the Master and Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from Tongji University, China. He has authored 2 books and published more than 100 academic papers, more than 30 endorsed patents and software copyright to his credit. His research interests include structural health monitoring, system identification and damage detection of structures, and etc.
Dr. Yixian Li is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and at the Department of Bridge Engineering, Tongji University. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Tongji University in 2021. He has published more than 10 international journal papers. His research interests include structural health monitoring, full-field response sensing, load identification, and physics-guided data models.