S t r u c t u r a l   H e a l t h
M o n i t o r i n g

• SHM Steering Committee
  A Steering Committee for the European Workshops on Structural Health Monitoring has been created.

• Statistical Data on SHM 2002
  31 countries, 216 attendees, 153 accepted papers, 44 course attendees

• SHM 2002 Proceedings
  A book has been published and distributed on-site to the attendees. It is availlable from now on.

• SHM 2003
  The 4th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring will take place in Stanford on September 15-17, 2003. Information on the following Web site:
  http://structure.stanford.edu/workshop/

• SHM 2004
  The 2nd European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring will take place in Munich on July 7-9, 2004. Information on the following Web site:
  http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mecheng/shm/ewshm04.

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Pre Conference Course

Background | Scope | Sponsors of SHM 2002 | Hotels, Transportation & Workshop Location

Background

Among the various fields of research oriented towards the development of smart materials and structures, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is particularly promising. SHM has attracted significant attention in recent years for its wide potential of applications, especially for civil infrastructures, aircraft and aerospace vehicles.

SHM is now a well-recognised field of activity, which is not only present in all international conferences on Smart Materials and Structures, but is also the object of specialised conferences.

Since 1997, an International Workshop on SHM takes place every two years in Stanford, organised by the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics of the Stanford University (Pr. Fu-Kuo Chang) - http://structure.stanford.edu/workshop.

Considering the increasing activity of the field and the biannual periodicity of the above mentioned event, it appears that a similar workshop, held every two years in alternation with the Stanford Workshop, could take place in Europe. Following this idea which received encouraging appreciations from both sides of the Atlantic, it was decided to start the process by organising this First European Workshop on SHM. It is planned to organise in the future following European workshops in other European countries. For this purpose, a European Steering Committee is established.

General Information 

Background | Scope | Sponsors of SHM 2002 | Hotels, Transportation & Workshop Location

Scope of the Workshop

The purpose of the workshop is to assess current state-of-the-art technologies in the field and to discuss and to identify key and emerging issues in research and development that are critical and unique in structural health monitoring. The workshop is also intended to promote exchanges and cross-fertilisation among many disciplines.

An exhibition area will be available for product and technology demonstrations.

A special volume of the Proceedings will be published by an international publisher and will be delivered at the Conference.

The workshop will focus on the most recent and important aspects of the field. In particular, the following topics will be included:

• Sensor and Actuator Development: Optical fibres, piezoelectric transducers, shape memory alloys, MEMS sensors and micro-actuators, nano-sensors, etc.
• Damage Identification and Properties/ Integrity Characterisation and Assessment: Innovative damage identification methods, real-time processing / condition monitoring techniques, non mechanical in-situ characterisation, modal and non modal analyses, neural network techniques, genetic algorithms, inverse solvers, etc.
• Intelligent Processing of Materials and Structures
• System Integration: Sensor networking, remote and wireless communications, information technol-ogy, integrated manufacturing, signal processing, hardware and software integration, etc.
• Applications (particularly in the field of Aeronautics /Aerospace and Civil Engineering):
  • Civil infrastructures: Bridges, highway systems, buildings, power plants, etc.
  • Aircraft and missile structures: Helicopters, airplanes, engines, motor cases, etc.
  • Space structures: Satellites, space stations, reusable launch vehicles, etc.
  • Land/Marine structures: Automobiles, trains, submarines, ships, etc.
  • Smart textiles

General Information 

Background | Scope | Sponsors of SHM 2002 | Hotels, Transportation & Workshop Location

General Information 

Background | Scope | Sponsors of SHM 2002 | Hotels, Transportation & Workshop Location

Hotels, Transportation & Workshop Location

We suggest you a list of recommended hotels. Booking and payment have to be done directly to the hotel you will have chosen.

In this hotels list (pdf, 15Ko), you will find hotels at different locations and different prices.

Find also the workshop location and the instructions for getting to the workshop

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Last updated: March 14, 2003

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