Sensors for civil infrastructure performance assessment and health monitoring have evolved significantly over the past decade with advances through high speed and low-cost electronic circuits, advances in fabrication and manufacturing methodologies, use of novel “smart” materials, and development of highly efficient signal validation and processing methods. Volume 1 of this two-volume series describes sensing hardware and data collection covering a variety of sensors, including fiber optic systems, acoustic emission, piezoelectric sensors, and electromagnetic sensors, ultrasonic methods, radar and millimeter wave technology, strain gauges, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), multifunctional materials and nanotechnology for sensing, and vision-based sensing and lasers.
Ming Wang is COE Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University, Massachusetts.
Jerome Lynch is Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is also Director of the University's Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Technologies.
Hoon Sohn is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea.