1: Sensors and Technologies for Structural Health Monitoring: A Review -- 2: Self-Sustaining Wireless Acoustic Emission Sensor System for Bridge Monitoring -- 3: Deformation Detection in Structural Health Monitoring -- 4: MEMS Strain Sensors for Intelligent Structural Systems -- 5: A Pattern-based Framework for Developing Wireless Monitoring Applications -- 6: Distributed brillouin sensor application to structural failure detection -- 7: Sensing Network Paradigms for Structural Health Monitoring -- 8: Reflectometry for Structural Health Monitoring -- 9: Sensor Fusion in Transportation Infrastructure Systems Using Belief Functions -- 10 Pulsed Eddy Current Thermography and Applications -- 11: The Use of Optical Fibres in Dam Monitoring -- 12: Optical Sensors Based on Fiber Bragg Gratings For Structural Health Monitoring -- 13: Polymer Optical Fiber Sensors in Structural Health Monitoring -- 14: Optical Fiber Sensors For Structural Health Monitoring -- 15 Sensors systems, especially fibre optic sensors in structural monitoring applications in concrete: an overview.

The book has focussed on the different aspects of sensing technology, i.e. high reliability, adaptability, recalibration, information processing, data fusion, validation and integration of novel and high performance sensors specifically aims to use to inspect mechanical health of structure and similar applications. This book is dedicated to Sensing systems for Structural Health Monitoring offers to variety of users, namely, Master and PhD degree students, researchers, practitioners, especially Civil and Construction engineers. The book will provide an opportunity of a dedicated and a deep approach in order to improve their knowledge in this specific field.