Review of Benchmark Studies and Guidelines for Structural Health Monitoring

Abstract

In the past three decades, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) has attracted considerable attention. The great achievements in theoretical study and the engineering applications of SHM are very encouraging and promising. Numerous approaches and techniques have been proposed and applied to different structures, making it difficult to compare and contrast the merits of the various methodologies. An SHM benchmark study provides a platform for comparing and evaluating the performance of SHM approaches and techniques on a consistent basis. This paper reviews the SHM benchmark studies. For each case, the physical structure, the numerical study, the scaled laboratorial model experiment as well as the comparisons made between results obtained from the variety of approaches are reviewed. The latest developments in guidelines on the application of SHM techniques is also be reviewed.