Data Driven Methods for Civil Structural Health Monitoring and Resilience: Latest Developments and Applications provides a comprehensive overview of data-driven methods for structural health monitoring (SHM) and resilience of civil engineering structures, mostly based on artificial intelligence or other advanced data science techniques. This allows existing structures to be turned into smart structures, thereby able to provide intelligible information about their state of health and performance on a continuous, relatively real-time basis. Artificial-intelligence based methodologies are becoming increasingly more attractive for civil engineering and SHM applications; machine learning and deep learning methods can be applied and further developed to transform the available data into valuable information for engineers and decision makers.
About the Author: Mohammad Noori is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, a Fellow and Life Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering and a recipient of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellowship. His work in nonlinear random vibrations, especially hysteretic systems, in seismic isolation and application of artificial intelligence methods for structural health monitoring is widely cited. He has authored over 300 refereed papers, including over 150 journal articles, has published 15 scientific books, 31 book chapters in archival volumes, has edited 15 technical books, and has been the Guest editor of 15 journal volumes and proceedings. Noori was a co-founder of the National Institute of Aerospace, established through a $379 million 15-year NASA contract in partnership with NASA Langley Research Center. He has also received over $14 million in support of his research from NSF, ONR, National Sea Grant, and industry. He has supervised 24 post doctoral, 26 PhD and 53 MS projects. He has given over 20 keynote and 76 invited talks and lectures. He is the founding executive editor of a scientific Journal, serves on the editorial board, or as the associate editor, of over 15 other journals, and has been a member of the scientific committee of numerous conferences. He directed the Sensors Program at the National Science Foundation in 2014, has been a distinguished visiting professor at several highly ranked universities in Europe and Asia, and serves as the scientific advisor for several organizations and technical firms. He was the dean of engineering at Cal Poly, and served as a Chaired professor and department head at NC State University and WPI and as the Chair of the national committee of mechanical engineering department heads. Noori has developed a unique online course, How To Write An Effective Research Paper, offered by Udemy.com, taken by over 9,000 students world-wide. Noori is an elected member of Sigma Xi, Pi Tau Sigma, Chi-Epsilon, and Sigma Mu Epsilon honorary research societies. In 1996 Noori was invited by President Clinton's Special Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection and presented a testimony as a national expert on that topic. Noori is the Founding Editor of Resilience and Sustainability in Civil, Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering Systems Series of CRC Press/Taylor and Francis.
Carlo Rainieri is currently a research scientist at the National Research Council of Italy. His research interests are in the fields of civil Structural Health Monitoring, Operational Modal Analysis, smart materials. He has jbeen a number of national as well as international research projects focused on civil SHM. He is member of the Editorial Board of a number of scientific Journals, such as Shock and Vibration, Infrastructures, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Advances in Civil Engineering, and he serves as Guest Editor for the Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring; moreover, he was Lead Editor of the Special Issue on "Automated Operational Modal Analysis and its applications in Structural Health Monitoring" published on Shock and Vibration. In 2019 he received the IOMAC scientific Award for his contribution to the development of Operational Modal Analysis. He was Chair of the 8th Civil Structural Health Monitoring Workshop (2021) and he was member of the scientific committee of a number of international conferences in the field of Operational Modal Analysis and SHM.
He is author of the first book on Operational Modal Analysis appeared in the literature ("Operational Modal Analysis of Civil Engineering Structure: An Introduction and Guide for Applications", edited by Springer) and of about 170 papers published on international peer-reviewed Journals and National and International conference proceedings. His main achievements in the field of civil SHM have been the development of data processing methods for vibration-based SHM applications, including a number of original automated Operational Modal Analysis procedures and novel methods for compensation of environmental/operational influence on modal properties. Dr. Rainieri is also the founder and former CEO of S2X s.r.l. (www.s2x.it), a spin off company of the University of Molise aimed at providing highly qualified solutions and services in the fields of civil SHM and output-only modal analysis of civil engineering structures.
Dr. Marco Domaneschi is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Structural, Geotechnical and Building Engineering of Politecnico di Torino, where he teaches earthquake engineering and structural design courses. Formerly, he was a research associate and appointed professor of structural engineering at Politecnico di Milano. He is a professional structural engineer for special structures, and serves as an R&D consultant in industrial manufacturing and mechanical engineering. He received his Ph.D. from University of Pavia (2006), and was a visiting researcher at several global universities. He is currently serves as an associate editor and editorial board member for several international journals such as the "Journal of Vibration and Control" by SAGE and "Bridge Engineering" of the Institution of Civil Engineers UK. He is also a member of several research associations such as ISHMII and IABMAS. He is also a reviewer for more than 40 international journals. He has been a speaker, sessions chair, editorial board member and organizer in several international conferences. He received numerous awards for best presentations at conferences, for research papers and activities. He supports/ed the coordination of several research projects, and has/d scientific responsibility in numerous research projects. He has authored over 70 journal and 130 international conference papers. His research interests and activities include, structural control and health monitoring, resilience and robustness of structures and communities, earthquake engineering and seismic risk, special structures, small and large scale simulations, emergency evacuation, and structural collapse analysis.
Dr Vasilis Sarhosis is an Associate Professor of Structural Engineering at the School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds in UK. He holds both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Leeds and worked as a consultant Civil Engineer in the UK. His main expertise lies in the development of advance high-fidelity models of non-linear response to quantify degradation and understand the long-term behavior of existing masonry infrastructure stock (e.g., bridges, tunnels, historic structures, and monuments etc.) subjected to extreme loading conditions. Recently, he pioneered the development of the "Cloud2DEM" procedure to transform three-dimensional point clouds of complex structures obtained from photogrammetry and laser scanning to three-dimensional Discrete Element Models. The approach enables the realistic structural analysis of "as is" masonry infrastructure in an accurate and computationally efficient manner. Dr Sarhosis is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering (FIMEchE) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in UK. He is currently chairing the National Scientific Committee on the Analysis and Restoration of Structures of Architectural Heritage (ISCARSAH-UK) which is part of ICOMOS. He has edited a book on computational modelling of masonry structures using the Discrete Element Method and published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal manuscripts. His research has been cited more than 1,500 times and his h-index is 22 (Scopus). For more information, please visit his website (https: //www.sarhosis.com/home-1).
