Structural Health Monitoring 2004

· Includes applications in aeronautics & space, civil engineering, automotive, railway, marine, heavy machinery, textiles, and more · Provides crucial information on damage identification and properties/ integration characterization and assessment · Intelligent processing of materials and structures · System integration, sensor and actuator development -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) has emerged from the broad area of smart structures to be one of the sectors with an extensive field of application. Now the proceedings of the most recent European conference include not only aerospace and civil engineering applications but also applications in the fields of naval, railway, heavy machinery, and even the automotive industry. The complete, illustrated texts of all 156 presentations from the recent European workshop are now published in this 1306-page hardcover volume. The second European workshop, held in Munich, Germany, in July 2004, assessed the current state-of-the-art technologies in the field, discussing and identifying key and emerging issues in research and development being critical and unique to structural health monitoring. The conference focused on promoting exchange and cross-fertilization among different disciplines. In addition, a focal point of the workshop was potential damaging obstacles in engineering structures and the means to alleviate them through application of SHM. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS · Structural Health Monitoring—Current Status and Future · Application of Structural Health Monitoring to Improve Efficiency of Aircraft Structure · Managing Structural Integrity, Risk and Reliability of Aging Critical Equipment in the Minerals Industry · Structural Health Monitoring: The Helicopter Challenge CIVIL ENGINEERING AND GENERAL APPLICATIONS General Applications · Structural Monitoring with FBG Sensors: Industrial Applications Development of Fiber Optic Ship Hull Health Monitoring System for Operation of Ships within Design Limits · Finite Element Analysis of Ship Hulls for Structural Health Monitoring Applications using Fiber Optic Sensor · An Overview of United States Coast Guard Corrosion Control through the Use of Online Corrosion Mapping Monitoring Techniques and Modelling I · Applications of Nonlinear System Identification to Structural Health Monitoring · Application of Ultrasonic Guided Waves to the Evaluation of Steel Members Integrity · An Investigation on Vibration-Based Damage Diagnosis in Thin Plates · Inverse FEM for Full-Field Reconstruction of Elastic Deformations in Shear Deformable Plates and Shells Monitoring Techniques and Modelling II · Application of Interval Analysis to Solve Civil Engineering Problems—Some Examples · Multifunctional Software Suite for Structural Health Monitoring Using SMART Technology · Diagnostic Imaging Technique for Structural Health Monitoring · Vibration Based Damage Assessment of PRC Precast Beams Bridges I · Static and Dynamic Tests of Arade Bridge in the A2 Highway · Monitoring of Oporto Luiz I Steel Bridge During a Loading Test · Optimal Bridge Maintenance Using Health Monitoring · Fatigue Damage Reliability Analysis for the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge with the Structural Health Monitoring Data · Probabilistic Lifetime Integration of Visual Inspection, Safety, Maintenance, and Cost of Structural Systems through Optimization Bridges II · Structural Health Monitoring of an All-Composite Bridge Using Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors · Structural Health Monitoring of Post-Tensioned Bri