The field of structural health monitoring (SHM) and damage identification is expanding in civil engineering. For the purpose of identifying the damage, defining its location and severity, and assessing how it will affect the structure's remaining life, SHM uses in-situ, non-destructive sensing and structural characteristic analysis. SHM is a relatively new and successful civil engineering technique, but assessing the health of a structure through tests and measurements is common practice, so evaluation and inspection guidelines exist.
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