Special Issue on “Multi-disciplinary issues in Structural Health Monitoring” : Preface
Journal
Smart Structures and Systems
Date Issued
July 2014
Author(s)
Abstract
The three Guest Editors of this special issue shared the opportunity of a four-year process of
harmonization and homogenization between senior scientists, post-docs and PhD students with civil and
electrical engineering backgrounds in the area of wireless sensor networks, sensor signal processing, nondestructive
evaluation and smart proactive management.
Structural Health Monitoring has many open issues that need to be addressed through a multidisciplinary
research approach. An attempt to address some of these issues is presented through the
contributions to this special issue, namely:
a) Wireless data transmission using power-efficient techniques;
b) Multi-objective optimization strategies for sensor placement;
c) Evolution strategies for the output–error state–space identification problem of vibrating structures;
The contribution by the different authors were formed through the discussions held at the periodical
workshops organized during the SmartEN Marie Curie ITN program (http://www.smarten-itn.eu/, Grant No.
238726) funded by the European Commission under FP7. The referees monitoring the review process gave
their full attention in guarantying the quality and the suitable editorial aspect of the manuscripts. The initial
ideas of the authors with different scientific backgrounds, coming from different European institutions and
private companies within SmartEN, matured into valuable scientific outputs for the research community
which provide to this collection of papers a broader meaning than just a simple publication of results.
harmonization and homogenization between senior scientists, post-docs and PhD students with civil and
electrical engineering backgrounds in the area of wireless sensor networks, sensor signal processing, nondestructive
evaluation and smart proactive management.
Structural Health Monitoring has many open issues that need to be addressed through a multidisciplinary
research approach. An attempt to address some of these issues is presented through the
contributions to this special issue, namely:
a) Wireless data transmission using power-efficient techniques;
b) Multi-objective optimization strategies for sensor placement;
c) Evolution strategies for the output–error state–space identification problem of vibrating structures;
The contribution by the different authors were formed through the discussions held at the periodical
workshops organized during the SmartEN Marie Curie ITN program (http://www.smarten-itn.eu/, Grant No.
238726) funded by the European Commission under FP7. The referees monitoring the review process gave
their full attention in guarantying the quality and the suitable editorial aspect of the manuscripts. The initial
ideas of the authors with different scientific backgrounds, coming from different European institutions and
private companies within SmartEN, matured into valuable scientific outputs for the research community
which provide to this collection of papers a broader meaning than just a simple publication of results.