Call for papers: Special Issue on “Advances in SHM of Cable-Supported Bridges”

Structural health monitoring (SHM) technology is a critical topic in civil engineering. Dr. Farhad Ansari, Past President of ISHMII and Editor-in- Chief of the Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring (JCSHM), will compile a special issue of the JCSHM that focuses on “Advances in Structural Health Monitoring of Cable-Supported Bridges.”

You are invited to submit your work to this special issue. Following is the brief description.  More detailed information is available in downloadable document: Call for Papers-JCSHM.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

· Smart sensors and advanced sensor networks

· Data processing and analysis

· Load identification and structural identification

· Model updating and condition assessment

· Structural health diagnosis and prognosis

· Damage detection

· SHM-aided rating systems for bridges and bridge networks

· SHM-aided life-cycle performance assessment

· Fusion of SHM and artificial Intelligence

· Case studies

Submissions

Manuscripts must be submitted via the online submission and peer review systems at http://CSHM.edmgr.com. Follow the submission instructions given on this site. Please select the article type as “S.I. Advances in Structural Health Monitoring of Cable-Supported Bridges.”

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a peer-review process.

Key Dates

Manuscript submission window: October 1, 2017 to February 1, 2018

Manuscript acceptance decision: July 1, 2018

Paper publication: November, 2018

Guest Editors

Prof. Hui LI

School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, China; lihui@hit.edu.cn

Prof. You-Lin XU

Faculty of Construction and Environment, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China; ceylxu@polyu.edu.hk