Description: Damage assessment of structures is an emerging field and has become increasingly important over the past decade or two. Diagnosis and prognosis of structural damage plays an important role not just in ensuring the structural integrity but also in optimizing the overall life cycle cost including the cost for operation and maintenance.
Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
The Special collection consists of a compilation 159 papers on all research topics relevant to damage assessment of engineering structures and systems including numerical simulations, signal processing of sensor measurements, theoretical and experimental studies. Broad areas of damage assessment covered in the publication include applications to composite materials, civil infrastructure, mechanical devices and machineries, renewable energy, sensors, signal processing, structural health and condition monitoring.

Structural Health Monitoring: Research and Applications

Edited by: Prof. Wing Kong Chiu and Steve C. Galea

Online since: June 2013

Description: Structural health monitoring has international relevance across maritime, aerospace and infrastructure domains for both civilian and military end-users. The aim of this book is to collect the most recent developments and research knowledge on this topic, with focusing in particular on the Asia-Pacific region.
Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
The collection covers 54 peer reviewed papers covering up-to-date research results in structural health monitoring.

Spacecraft Structures, Materials and Mechanical Testing

Edited by: Junqiao Xiong

Online since: February 2013

Description:

Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2012
International Conference on Spacecraft Structures, Materials and Mechanical
Testing (ICSSMMT 2012), December 27-28, 2012, Xiamen, China.
The papers are grouped as follows:
Chapter 1: Material Engineering and Technology;
Chapter 2: Spacecraft Structures Technology;
Chapter 3: Advanced Achievements of Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing
Technology;
Chapter 4: Advanced Applications of Electrical Engineering Development

Structural Health Monitoring II

Edited by: Tadeusz Uhl

Online since: July 2012

Description: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
The aim of this special collection is to bring together the expertise of scientists and engineers from universities and industry who work in the fields of Structural Health Monitoring, Non-Destructive Evaluation and Condition Monitoring. Networking between diagnostic systems designers and system users is crucial to the successful operation of many SHM systems. The study of damage detection, localization and assessment are important to the rapidly growing area of SHM.

Advanced Structural and Functional Materials for Protection, ICMAT 2011

Edited by: Ma Jan and Santhiagu Ezhilvalavan

Online since: February 2012

Description: This collection of 37 papers describes materials for protecting civilians and soldiers against vehicle collision, blast-damage, fragmentation and unconventional attack. They also treat multi-functional materials for enhancing civilian and soldier performance under extreme conditions. The detailed topics include the atomic-layer deposition of thin inorganic coatings into renewable packaging materials, the development of woven enhanced silk fabric for ballistic protection, novel piezo-electric tactile sensor materials having improved properties, enhancement of the char resistance of expandable graphite-based intrumescent fire-retardant coatings by using multi-wall carbon nano tubes for structural steel, the development of new sol-gel surface-treatment formulations for the bonded repair of aircraft and the laminated microstructure and toughening mechanism of abalone shell.