Geotechnical engineering deals with soils and rocks and their use in engineering
constructions. By their nature, soils and rocks exhibit complex behaviours and a high level of …

The purpose of this paper is to review the development and the state of the art in desiccation
cracking characterization methods and review the desiccation cracking behaviors of soils …

The application of structural health monitoring (SHM) systems to civil engineering structures
has been a developing studied and practiced topic, that has allowed for a better …

Featured Application Distributed fibre optic sensors for geo-hydrological applications: a
comprehensive review about methodology, weaknesses, and strengths. Abstract Distributed …

With the accelerated urbanization and population growth in the Yangtze River Delta of
China, numerous metro tunnels are in operation or under construction, and adjacent deep …

Abstract Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing (DFOS) is one of the promising tools for structure
health monitoring. It can measure physical quantities (such as temperature, strain, and …

Distributed optical fiber sensors (DOFS) have been attracted significant attention from
geotechnical engineering communities for a few decades. Innovative development of …

A review focused on real world applications of Brillouin distributed fiber sensors is presented
in this paper. After a brief overview of the theoretical principles, some works to face the two …

In the past two decades Brillouin-based sensors have emerged as a newly-developed
optical fiber sensing technology for distributed temperature and strain measurements …

Artificial neural network (ANN) has acquired noticeable interest from the research
community to handle complex problems in Construction and Building engineering (CB). This …