Sensor Technologies for Civil Infrastructures

Distinguished Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, USA. Jerome P. Lynch is Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Michigan, USA. Professor Hoon Sohn works at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea.

Volume 1: Introduction to sensing for structural performance assessment and health monitoring; Sensor data acquisition systems and architectures for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures; Commonly used sensors for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures and their associated algorithms; Piezoelectric transducers for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures; Optical fiber sensors for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures; Acoustic emission sensors for civil applications; Nonlinear acoustic and ultrasound methods for civil applications; Radar technology: radio frequency, interferometric, millimeter wave and terahertz sensors for civil applications; Electromagnetic sensors for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures; Micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures; Nano-enabling multifunctional materials and sensing of civil infrastructures; Laser-based sensing for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures; Corrosion sensing for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures; Vision-based sensing for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures; Robotic sensing for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures; Design and selection of wireless structural monitoring systems; Permanent installation of wireless structural monitoring systems in infrastructure systems; Energy harvesting for sensing systems to assess and monitor civil infrastructures; System level design of a roaming, multi-modal, multi-sensor system for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures. Volume 2: Part 1 Sensor data interrogation and decision making: Sensor data management technologies for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures; Sensor data analysis, reduction and fusion for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures; Analytical techniques for damage detection and localization for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures; Prognosis and life-cycle assessment based on structural health monitoring (SHM) information for civil infrastructures; Output only modal identification and structural damage detection using time frequency and wavelet techniques for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures. Part 2 Case studies in assessing and monitoring specific structures: Sensing solutions for assessing and monitoring bridges; Sensing solutions for assessing and monitoring seismically-excited buildings; Sensing solutions for assessing and monitoring super-tall towers; Sensing solutions for assessing and monitoring dams; Sensing solutions for assessing and monitoring tunnels; Sensing solutions for assessing and monitoring roads; Sensing solutions for assessing and monitoring wind turbines; Sensing solutions for assessing and monitoring pipeline systems; Sensing solutions for assessing and monitoring underwater systems; Sensing solutions for assessing and monitoring offshore structures; Sensing solutions for assessing and monitoring railroad tracks; Sensing solutions for assessing and monitoring of nuclear power plants; Sensing solutions for assessing and monitoring subsurface utility mapping; Sensing solutions for assessing and monitoring power systems; Sensing solutions for assessing the stability of levees, sinkholes and landslides.