Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) denotes a system with the ability to detect and interpret adverse " changes " in a structure in order to improve reliability and reduce life-cycle costs. The greatest challenge in designing a SHM system is knowing what " changes " to look for and how to identify them. This paper focuses on the relationship between sensing systems and their ability to detect ch...

The present study presents an algorithm that models uncertainties at the structural component level to estimate the performance reliability of RC structures. The method calculates the performance reliability using a systemic approach and incorporates the improved response surface method based on sampling blocks using the first-order reliability method and conditional reliability indices. The re...

SUMMARY Health monitoring of structural systems for the detection of damage is a critical practice in determining their safety and service life. A large amount of research has been done in applying damage detection analysis to linear models of structures. Although many real structures exhibit nonlinear behavior prior to or as a result of damage, there are currently few tools to apply damage det...