Sensor Technologies for Civil Infrastructures 1E

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.