Survey and study on intelligent monitoring and health management for large civil structure

With rapid development of the large-scaled civil infrastructure, their sustainability and dependability have been the most important issues concerning social orders and people’s daily lives. In recent years, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) for civil engineering has attracted much attention of researchers. Meanwhile, the latest progresses on the cyber-physical system, intelligent robot, wireless sensor network and data mining techniques have promoted the growth of intelligent structure monitoring and health management. This paper firstly introduces the development and classification of SHM of civil infrastructure. Secondly, the recent research progresses on its enabling technologies including sensors, intelligent detection robot, wireless sensors network, data analysis and management are reported. Next, an intelligent monitoring and health management system for metal roof sheathings system is presented as an application example. Finally, some future trends for SHM are discussed.