The Past, Present and Future of Structural Health Monitoring: An Overview of Three Ages

Farrar, Charles Reed; Dervilis, Nikolaos; Worden, Keith

doi:10.1111/str.12495

Title: The Past, Present and Future of Structural Health Monitoring: An Overview of Three Ages

Journal Article · 04 February 2025 · Strain

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/str.12495 · OSTI ID:2520128

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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Univ. of Sheffield (United Kingdom)

This paper presents an overview of the discipline of structural health monitoring (SHM), organised in terms of three proposed ages. The first age is delineated by the prehistory of SHM and the period where nondestructing testing methods evolved into an organised set of principles built upon physics-based models; this age ended when the model-based approaches reached an impasse in terms of their ability to properly deal with real-world problems. The second age of SHM began with a transition to data-based methods based on statistical pattern recognition, which provided a holistic approach to SHM problems for the first time. This age arguably ended when the methods foundered in situations where the necessary training data were scarce. It is argued here that the third age began with the development of population-based SHM, which has been designed to overcome the problem of data scarcity. As there is very limited space in a single article to provide a comprehensive overview, an appendix has been provided here that gives a very systematic bibliography of SHM reviews—a meta-bibliography.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001

OSTI ID:: 2520128

Report Number(s):: LA-UR--24-25056

Journal Information:: Strain, Journal Name: Strain Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 61; ISSN 0039-2103

Publisher:: WileyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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