Structural System Identification and Health Monitoring: A Primer

Our built infrastructure comprises an evolving organism, which requires monitoring and diagnostics throughout its service life in order to ensure a reliable and safe operation. To this end, Structural Identification (St-Id) exploits sensory feedback in order to reveal an abundance of information on the system throughout its life-cycle. The decoding of this information into an adequate representation of the system, may in turn serve as a tool for life-cycle assessment, maintenance planning a...