Farrar, C.R., Dervilis, N. orcid.org/0000-0002-5712-7323 and Worden, K. orcid.org/0000-0002-1035-238X (2025) The past, present and future of structural health monitoring: an overview of three ages. Strain, 61 (1). e12495. ISSN 0039-2103
Abstract
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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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | Civil Engineering; Engineering; Materials Engineering |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL EP/W005816/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 11 Feb 2025 08:27 |
Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2025 08:27 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/str.12495 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:223118 |