Structural Resilience through Structural Health Monitoring: A Critical Review

This chapter aims to evaluate structural resilience improvements based on structural health monitoring. The entire chapter is organized into two main parts. In the first one, the key stages of the monitoring method are described at varying degrees of difficulty and knowledge levels. A brief digression of established and cutting-edge approaches that may be traced back to the discipline is also included. Next, structural resilience and its dimensions are described by referring to the literature. At the end of this general discussion concerning the theoretical aspect of these disciplines, a bibliographical and bibliometric study of the references is conducted, and the relationship between monitoring and resilience is identified. In this way, any conceptual and practical links present in the existing literature will be highlighted. The second part of the chapter is devoted to the analysis of the conceptual relations between the four dimensions of structural resilience and the four stages of the structural health monitoring discipline. Schemes and examples are provided in this chapter to demonstrate how information at each monitoring stage can be employed for the evaluation of the corresponding resilience dimension.