Health Monitoring of Structural Materials and Components : Methods with Applications

This book covers the health monitoring of structural materials and components, and is split into three main areas: loads identification, in situ damage identification (diagnostics), and reliability prediction (prognostics).

This book appeals to newcomers to the subject and those with a greater understanding, and application of the technical skills involved, such as practitioners and researchers, who wish to have a reference text to address current and future changes in this emerging field.

The introduction itself consists of a definition of terminology, a review of the current state of the art technology, and the approach to health monitoring of structural materials and components that is adopted.

The second section comprises of technical information on sensing and data interrogation, modelling and prediction, and the core technical approaches for health monitoring are summarized.

The final section provides highly useful case study examples, that span a variety of subject areas, giving the reader the opportunity to see the practical application of the technical knowledge described in the preceding section.