New Proceedings on Advanced Monitoring Techniques

LANCASTER, PA - Nearly all in-service structures require some form of maintenance for monitoring their integrity and health condition to prolong their life span or to prevent catastrophic failure. However, current schedule-driven inspection and maintenance techniques can be time-consuming, labor-intensive, and expensive.

Now published, STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING: Current Status and Perspectives contains more than 60 in-depth reports on the technology of structural maintenance monitoring and diagnosis. The purpose of the workshop was to assess the current state-of-the-art technologies in the field of structural health monitoring and to discuss and identify key and emerging issues in research and development that are critical and unique to structural health monitoring.

The editor of this volume, Fu-Kuo Chang, is from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. The authors are recognized authorities on this subject from around the world. The reports are well illustrated and supplemented with useful reference data.

These proceedings contain more than 60 new reports on advanced monitoring and diagnostic techniques for in-service structures. The application areas range from civil engineering structures to aircraft and aerospace structures. Special attention is made to smart materials technology and material/structural damage characterization.

The new information presented in this volume will be of value to engineers and scientists involved in the research, development and applications of structural health monitoring technology.

Chapter titles include: Keynote Speakers * Sensing Technology Development I * Civil Infrastructures I * Modeling and Diagnostic Methods I * Keynote Speakers * Modeling and Diagnostics Methods II * System Integration * Aerospace Applications * Keynote Speakers * Civil Infrastructures II * Modeling and Diagnostic Methods III * Sensing Technology Development II * Keynote Speakers * Civil Infrastructure III * General Applications * Modeling and Diagnostic Methods IV * Keynote Speakers * Modeling and Diagnostic Methods V * Civil Infrastructures IV.

This new book is now available from Technomic Publishing Company, Inc., 851 New Holland Ave., Box 3535, Lancaster, PA 17604, U.S.A. Phone: 717-291-5609 (Toll-Free in the U.S. / Territories and Canada: 800-233-9936), Fax: 717-295-4538, E-Mail: marketing@techpub.com, WWW Site: http://www.techpub.com