Smart structural health monitoring systems

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We expect the book to be a valuable resource for researchers, including graduate students, in the areas of smart materials and robotics. Practitioners in biomedical engineering, robotic systems, structural health monitoring will also find this book of interest. In addition, the book can serve as a reference for graduate-level courses in smart materials. A brief outline of the book follows. 

It appears that smart structures offer a potential solution for continuous structural health monitoring. A smart stmctnre is defined as a system that is designed for a specific functional purpose, and that operates at a higher level of performance than its conventional counterpart in fulfilling this pnrpose. The system senses its internal state and external, and based on information obtained makes decisions and responds to meet the functional reqnirements [293]. 

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