Natural hazards have the potential to cause catastrophic damage and significant
socioeconomic loss. The actual damage and loss observed in the recent decades has …

Structural health diagnosis and prognosis is the goal of structural health monitoring.
Vibration-based structural health monitoring methodology has been extensively …

In the past four decades, remote-sensing data and methodologies have been increasingly
used in many fields to improve the efficiency, accuracy, or safety of data collection, and …

Nowadays, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are frequently used for periodic visual
inspection of building envelopes to detect unsafe conditions or vulnerable damages …

Cracks of steel structure usually came from fatigue or material failure, which may cause
structural failure and were not allowed to occur. Aiming at the flexible and convenient …

Abstract While Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used for building façade
inspections, their advantages have not been fully leveraged due to the challenge in gaining …

Health monitoring of civil infrastructures is a key application of Internet of things (IoT), while
edge computing is an important component of IoT. In this context, swarms of autonomous …

Corrosion of steel structures may cause failures that can adversely affect building
performance. A flexible and convenient monitoring method that utilizes unmanned aerial …

Unmanned aerial systems (UASs) are increasingly applied for bridge inspection. A vision-
guided UAS with a lightweight convolutional neural network is developed to detect and …

The field of structural engineering is vast, spanning areas from the design of new
infrastructure to the assessment of existing infrastructure. From the onset, traditional entry …