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Introduction<\/h3>\n

Over the XX century, Europe has developed a mature and extensive park of Civil Engineering structures. Just as an example \u2013 the core of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) holds an impressive total length of 85,163 km (comprising both railway lines and roads). In such frame, some assets (e.g. bridges) are identified as critical, taking into account that through them several infrastructural functions are normally distributed (e.g. a road, a railway track, a subway track, electrical and gas lines, etc). Moreover, most of these assets were built as part of the post-World War II (1939-45) reconstruction effort, which means that we, as a society, are already experiencing the beginning of the end of their lifetime. Therefore, their maintenance and surveillance are becoming increasingly more influenced by life-cycle multi-objective performance criteria, which integrate economic, environmental and social factors.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, and mainly since the beginning of this century, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems have been progressively explored, worldwide, on full-scale demonstration projects (e.g. bridges, tunnels, historic masonry buildings, wind parks), with a clear consensus among experts about their benefits and the necessity on having this explored more strategically and as integrant part of maintenance and surveillance procedures. Current applications of SHM systems have succeeded in assessing the strength of structures, location of damage if exist and identification and extraction of asset-specific features (e.g. vibration frequencies). Such information allows to reduce uncertainty on the real behaviour of the asset and therefore, helping to better decide next in the context of asset management.<\/p>\n

More recently (mainly from 2014 onwards), worldwide experts in the field have been formulating a rational and strategic approach in the utilization of SHM in the context of decision-making. The objective is simple \u2013 to quantify the value of the collected data by SHM systems on Civil Engineering structures, before implementation, so the structural risk and integrity management might be efficiently optimized. This is something that owners and concessionaires of Civil Engineering structures always pursue to better planning the available budget.<\/p>\n

Hence, and based on video tutorials, multimedia content and holistic coursework (divided into four main questions), this course offers the required knowledge to build expertise in a field that is in expansion in the market \u2013 Structural Health Monitoring to support decision-making in Civil Engineering<\/em> \u2013 taking benefit of the current era of digitization (Industry 4.0).<\/p>\n

Objectives<\/h3>\n

This course aims to introduce the interested audience to the field of Structural Health Monitoring applied on Civil Engineering structures and explain how the data collected by these systems can support better assessment on Civil Engineering structures and therefore, saving lives and money.<\/p>\n

In the medium- long-run, this course holds some merits in preparing the current and future generations of Civil Engineers and stakeholders involved to a new era that we are already embracing \u2013 the era of digitization (Industry 4.0).<\/p>\n

In this context, the course objectives can be organized as follows (bottom-up):<\/p>\n