SHM process as perceived through 350 projects

Advanced Visualization and Accessibility to Heterogeneous Monitoring Data

“…The initial stage in establishing general principles of SHM data accessibility and visualization was based on literature review and the authors’ extensive experiences in SHM projects (all four coauthors have ample academic and industrial experience in SHM, see for example Glisic et al., ). The former included general literature, that is, the works that present general principles of data visualization and data accessibility (e.g., Card et al., ; Spence, ; Bederson and Shneiderman, ), and the literature more specific to SHM, as presented in the introductory section.…”

“…Structural health monitoring (SHM) is a process aimed at providing accurate and in‐time information concerning structural health condition and performance. The information obtained from monitoring is used to plan and design preservation activities, increase safety, verify hypotheses, reduce uncertainty, and widen the knowledge concerning the structure being monitored (Glisic et al., ). Consequently, SHM has the potential to prevent adverse social, economic, ecological, and aesthetic impacts that may occur in the case of structures failing to perform (from operational, serviceability, safety, or cost perspectives), and is critical to the emergence of sustainable civil engineering.…”

“…Each activity and subactivity has its own challenges and the researches related to each specific activity and subactivity are ongoing. To clearly indicate the scope of this article, the SHM activities as perceived by authors are shown in Figure (Glisic et al., ), with the research topic of this article indicated in the figure. Although the other research areas such as the design of sensor network, data analysis and interpretation, and the use of the data represent important SHM topics, they are out of the scope of this article and therefore, they are not included.…”

“…Structural health monitoring core activities and subactivities, and the scope of this article (adapted from Glisic et al., ).…”

Brillouin Corrosion Expansion Sensors for Steel Reinforced Concrete Structures Using a Fiber Optic Coil Winding Method

“…Recently, kinds of novel corrosion sensors have been applied in the health monitoring of large-scale civil structures such as buildings, dams, tunnels, river levees and other structures [ 11 – 13 ]. Among them, the fiber optical corrosion sensors are currently attracting considerable research interest in SHM owing to their distributed sensing ability, long sensing distance, high sensitivity, good durability, immunity to electromagnetic interference and other advantages [ 14 , 15 ].…”