Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is an emerging technology, dealing with the development and implementation of techniques and systems where monitoring, inspection and damage detection become an integral part of structures and thus a matter of automation. It further merges with a variety of techniques related to diagnostics and prognostics.

SHM emerged from the field of smart structures and laterally encompasses disciplines such as structural dynamics, materials and structures, fatigue and fracture, non-destructive testing and evaluation, sensors and actuators, microelectronics, signal processing and much more. To be effective in the development of SHM systems, a multidisciplinary approach is therefore necessary. Without this global view it will be difficult for engineers to holistically manage the operation of an engineering structure through its life cycle in the future and to generate new breakthroughs in structural engineering.

The objective of this Course is to get the experts prepared for the European and other industries to be able to design and manage structural health of engineering structures in the future. A matching network of experts from European universities and research institutions, selected by their technical competence and teaching experience, has prepared an intensive Lectures Series, covering all theory and techniques relevant to the understanding and handling of SHM. Laboratory and demonstration activities will also be included such that participants gain hands-on experience in the main techniques addressed.