This book includes a collection of state-of-the-art contributions addressing both theoretical
developments in and successful applications of seismic structural health monitoring (S2HM).
Over the past few decades Seismic SHM has expanded considerably due to the growing demand
among various stakeholders (owners managers and engineering professionals) and researchers.
The discipline has matured in the process as can be seen by the number of S2HM systems
currently installed worldwide. Furthermore the responses recorded by S2HM systems hold great
potential both with regard to the management of emergency situations and to ordinary
maintenance needs. The book's 17 chapters prepared by leading international experts are
divided into four major sections. The first comprises six chapters describing the specific
requirements of S2HM systems for different types of civil structures and infrastructures
(buildings bridges cultural heritage dams structures with base isolation devices) and for
monitoring different phenomena (e.g. soil-structure interaction and excessive drift). The
second section describes available methods and computational tools for data processing while
the third is dedicated to hardware and software tools for S2HM. In the book's closing section
five chapters report on state-of-the-art applications of S2HM around the world.
