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AI-driven Monitoring, Condition Assessment, and Data Analytics for Enhancing Infrastructure Resilience

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Guest Editors

Assoc. Prof. Xiao Tan

Email: xiaotan@hhu.edu.cn

Affiliation: College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China

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Research Interests: structural health monitoring, fiber optic sensors, urban lifelines, intelligent infrastructure, multifunctional construction materials

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Prof. Lu Zhang

Email: zhanglu@glut.edu.cn

Affiliation: School of Civil Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541006, China

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Research Interests: structural health monitoring and nondestructive evaluation, smart materials and structures, wave propagation, guided ultrasonic waves, and acoustoelasticity, structural resilience and earthquake engineering, acoustic emission

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Assoc. Prof. Dan Li

Email: lidan@seu.edu.cn

Affiliation: School of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China

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Research Interests: structural health monitoring and nondestructive evaluation, acoustic emission and ultrasonic testing, smart construction and mantainace, machine learning and data processing

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Assoc. Prof. E Chen

Email: chene@hust.edu.cn

Affiliation: School of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

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Research Interests: monitoring and assessment of steel corrosion in concrete

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Assist. Prof. Li Ai

Email: ail@email.sc.edu

Affiliation: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA

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Research Interests: nondestructive testing, structural health monitoring, bridge load rating, AI for science/engineering, cyber-physical systems, digital twins

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Summary

In modern urban environments, the health of structural infrastructure – encompassing roads, bridges, tunnels, and other critical elements – is crucial for the everyday functioning and well-being of city residents. These infrastructures, key to seamless operation and economic vitality, are currently facing challenges from climate change, urbanization, aging, and natural hazards. The development of structural health monitoring (SHM), non-destructive testing (NDT), digital twins, and novel functional construction materials has become critical. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly central in these areas, offering advanced solutions for real-time monitoring, condition assessment, and ensuring the resilience of these vital infrastructures. The encouraged topics include but are not limited to:
1. Recent advancements in structural health monitoring and sensor technologies.
2. State-of-the-art non-destructive testing methods
3. Digital twins and AI methods relevant to resilient infrastructures.
4. Intelligent constructional materials with self-sensing and adaptive functionalities.
5. Modern data processing techniques for sustainable and recycling material practices.


Keywords

artificial intelligence; advanced sensing and monitoring technologies; non-destructive testing and evaluation; data analysis; intelligent constructional materials

Published Papers


  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Diffusion-Driven Generation of Synthetic Complex Concrete Crack Images for Segmentation Tasks

    Pengwei Guo, Xiao Tan, Yiming Liu
    Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2025.071317
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: AI-driven Monitoring, Condition Assessment, and Data Analytics for Enhancing Infrastructure Resilience)
    Abstract Crack detection accuracy in computer vision is often constrained by limited annotated datasets. Although Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been applied for data augmentation, they frequently introduce blurs and artifacts. To address this challenge, this study leverages Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) to generate high-quality synthetic crack images, enriching the training set with diverse and structurally consistent samples that enhance the crack segmentation. The proposed framework involves a two-stage pipeline: first, DDPMs are used to synthesize high-fidelity crack images that capture fine structural details. Second, these generated samples are combined with real data to train… More >

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Segmentation of Building Surface Cracks by Incorporating Attention Mechanism and Dilation-Wise Residual

    Yating Xu, Mansheng Xiao, Mengxing Gao, Zhenzhen Liu, Zeyu Xiao
    Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.19, No.6, pp. 1635-1656, 2025, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2025.068822
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: AI-driven Monitoring, Condition Assessment, and Data Analytics for Enhancing Infrastructure Resilience)
    Abstract During the operation, maintenance and upkeep of concrete buildings, surface cracks are often regarded as important warning signs of potential damage. Their precise segmentation plays a key role in assessing the health of a building. Traditional manual inspection is subjective, inefficient and has safety hazards. In contrast, current mainstream computer vision–based crack segmentation methods still suffer from missed detections, false detections, and segmentation discontinuities. These problems are particularly evident when dealing with small cracks, complex backgrounds, and blurred boundaries. For this reason, this paper proposes a lightweight building surface crack segmentation method, HL-YOLO, based on… More >

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