Structural health monitoring (SHM) is an effective way to maintain the civil infrastructure against unexpected collapse. In recent years, many researchers have developed numerous damage detection methods to identify possible damage locations. The damage locating vector (DLV) method proposed by Bernal has received significant attention because this method was verified by a series of proof-of-con...

Structural damage identification approaches relying on structural vibration shapes (VSs) have been widely developed. Among the approaches, pseudo-force approach has attracted increasing attention during recent decade owing to fact that damage-induced is concentrated within region only and rapidly attenuates at undamaged locations. Transverse pseudo-forces (TPFs) flexural VSs used for identifica...

Worldwide, liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer in men and seventh most common cancer in women. Intoxicant-induced liver injury is one of the major causes for severe structural damage with fibrosis and functional derangement of the liver leading to cancer in its later stages. This report focuses on the minimally invasive autofluorescence spectroscopic (AFS) studies on intoxicant, carbon...

Introduction Prenatal diagnosis and foetal therapy are rare in Africa except for the presentation of polyhydraminios in foetal bowel obstruction. This chapter therefore covers prenatal diagnosis and therapy as practised in resourced countries. Expertise in surgical correction of congenital malformations may favourably influence the perinatal management of prenatally diagnosed anomalies, by chan...

Preliminary notes This paper outlines the research aimed at developing an effective and reliable monitoring method for structural damage identification. A computational procedure for a direct iteration technique based on the non-linear perturbation theory is proposed to identify structural damage, when information about only natural frequencies for the damaged structure is required. The present...