Sensor Technologies for Civil Infrastructures, Volume 1

Preface

The oldest of all of the engineering disciplines, Civil Engineering, enjoys a proud history of providing society with infrastructure systems to ensure economic prosperity and a high quality of life. In recent years, a number of grand challenges have emerged that fundamentally jeopardize the profession’s ability to continue designing and maintaining infrastructure with the high level of performance as experienced in the past. For example, structures in urban environments are seeing unprecedented levels of demand from growing populations leading to higher levels of deterioration occurring at faster rates. This is an especially demanding issue for civil engineers in developed nations who are now dealing with a growing number of infrastructure ...