A literature review of next-generation smart sensing technology in structural health monitoring

Advent of computationally efficient smartphones, inexpensive high-resolution cameras, drones, and robotic sensors has brought a new era of next-generation intelligent monitoring systems for civil infrastructure. Vibration-based condition assessment has garnered as a prominent method of evaluating the health of large-scale infrastructure. The use of contact-based sensors for acquiring vibration data becomes uneconomical and tedious due to their instrumentation cost, centralized nature, and densification required to collect sufficient data for system identification of modern complex structures. A need to advance and develop alternative methods for efficient sensing system results in next-generation measurement…

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  Canadian Network for Research and Innovation in Machining Technology, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada