The concept of Value of Information (VoI) has attracted significant attentions within the civil
engineering community over especially the last decade. Triggered by the increasing focus …

The difficulty in quantifying the benefit of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) for decision
support is one of the bottlenecks to an extensive adoption of SHM on real-world structures …

In this paper, a maintenance policy is proposed for pipelines subject to corrosion, by taking
into account imperfect inspection results. The degradation of the pipeline is induced by …

Decision-making for engineering systems management can be efficiently formulated using
Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) or Partially Observable MDPs (POMDPs). Typical …

Quantifying the value of the information extracted from a structural health monitoring (SHM)
system is an important step towards convincing decision makers to implement these …

Determination of inspection and maintenance policies for minimizing long-term risks and
costs in deteriorating engineering environments constitutes a complex optimization problem …

Bayesian updating is a powerful method to learn and calibrate models with data and
observations. Because of the difficulties involved in computing the high-dimensional …

In most structural systems, it is neither possible nor optimal to inspect all system components
regularly. An optimal inspection-repair strategy controls deterioration in structural systems …

When designing monitoring systems and planning inspections, engineers must assess the
benefits of the additional information that can be obtained and weigh them against the cost …

In the field of Structural Health Monitoring, tests and sensing systems are intended as tools
providing diagnoses, which allow the operator of the facility to develop an efficient …