Structural health monitoring for maintenance management of deteriorating structures: Current practice and state of the art

Maintenance management of deteriorating structures is a huge challenge for the asset owners andmanagers in all countries with aging civil infrastructure. It is impractical to replace, or even repair, alldeteriorating structures due to the substantial scale and distribution of such infrastructure, and itsassociated costs. Maintenance management systems developed and deployed to address this havevaried success in different countries. This paper outlines the key features of maintenance managementsystems, reflect on the current best practice in different countries and highlight the state of the art inthis area. It is demonstrated through case studies that integrating structural health monitoring in themaintenance management systems is promising in rationalizing decisions required by the asset ownersconstrained by the scarce resources.

Keywords:

Structural health monitoring , maintenance management , deterioration modeling , deterioration management , civil infrastructure