1. Introduction The development of a real-time, in-service structural health monitoring and damage detection technique has recently attracted a large number of academic and industrial researchers. The goal of this research is to allow systems and structures to monitor their own integrity while in operation and throughout their lives in order to prevent catastrophic failures and to reduce the co...

We propose a novel data delivery strategy, called Whirlpool, for efficient SHM using Wireless Sensor Networks. Whirlpool implements a rotating interrogation of a monitoring structure and provides collision-aware scheduling of the monitoring queries. The Whirlpool strategy can be tuned for the required Quality of Data (QoD). We apply Whirlpool to examine the unique properties of output signals o...

The following text supports the lecture series AVT-220 on “Structural Health Monitoring of Military Vehicles” co-ordinated by STO-CSO. This lecture series is planned to run in Germany (BAM-Berlin) and Spain (Centro Convenciones MAPFRE –Madrid) during 2014, and Canada (Vancouver) in 2015. The author, Malcolm McGugan, is one of seven lecturers involved and this report accompanies his presentation...

Control forces in semi-active control systems are constrained by the dynamics of actuators that regulate energy transmission through variable damping and/or stiffness mechanisms. The potential benefit of the development and implementation of new semi-active control devices and applications can be determined by optimizing the controlled performance subject to the constraints of the dynamics of t...

1Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 2Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 3Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 4Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 Tat.Fu@...