HeaMES 2024

5th International Conference on Health Monitoring of Civil & Maritime Structures

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Abstracts should be sent to mamc@mamarineconsultants.com by the deadline of 15 March 2024.

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There is an urgent need for further progress in structural health monitoring (SHM) for both civil and maritime structures. Maximising the availability and productivity of onshore and offshore infrastructure and marine vessels, whilst operating them safely and with minimal impact on the environment, is of major concern to operators. Many such structures are unique, e.g. ships such as FPSOs have specific constraints, loading characteristics and damage consequences that make them different to other offshore installations and conventional ships, and often more challenging to maintain and operate. Market research shows that there is a need for efficient SHM which could facilitate structural, fatigue and corrosion analyses and underpin risk based inspections to address the structural integrity of onshore and offshore structures. Radical developments in the telecommunication, sensor and data processing technologies are transforming the way that asset management is conceived and carried out. Sensors and structural health monitoring systems are increasingly becoming an integral part of new and existing buildings, bridges, offshore structures and installations, and vessels. Sensing arrays can be permanently connected to distributed management networks so that owners, users, and in general, all those involved in the management process and connected via the Internet can query in real time condition and performance during construction and operation. Whereas today the structural engineer conceives the single building or bridge as a stand-alone project, in future it is likely that structures will be regarded as nodes of a complex infrastructure network. Design specifications, real-time operation, and any decision on maintenance, upgrading and reconstruction of the single node will reflect the management policy of the whole system, properly accounting for concepts such as cost, risk and sustainability and structural health monitoring will play a critical role in these transformed approaches. HeaMES 2024 provides an ideal platform for innovative industry and practitioners, leading researchers, technology developers, and supply chain partners to meet. Bringing the pioneering experts together, the conference aims to promote exchange of ideas.

Conference Themes

• Performance and condition monitoring
• Quantitative SHM-based reliability, safety and performance assessment
• Modelling and dealing with uncertainty in SHM data
• Economic analysis of SHM strategies and benefits
• Management of structures exceeding design life
• Damage control, repair and strengthening
• Damage detection
• Modelling of operational and environmental influences
• Digital twin/SHM integration
• SHM-based design
• Validation and certification
• Design guidelines and codes
• Signal processing
• Big data in SHM
• Real time monitoring
• Standardization of SHM systems
• Sensors and actuators for infrastructure instrumentation
• Sensor networks
• Remote monitoring systems
• Global system integration
• Smart structures and materials
• Field applications and case studies
• Critical issues in SHM
• Visionary, disruptive and transformational concepts

Keynote Speakers

Dr Carlo Rainieri, Senior Researcher, National Research Council of Italy

Professor Daniele Zonta, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento

Professor Edwin Reynders, Faculty of Engineering Science, University of Leuven

Professor Monssef Drissi-Habti, Deputy Director of COSYS Department, Université Gustave Eiffel

Dr Abhishek Kundu, Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, Cardiff University

Professor Nenad Gucunski, Chair of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rutgers University

Dr Marco Domaneschi, Department of Structural, Geotechnical and Building Engineering, Politecnico di Torino

Dr Dionysius M. Siringoringo, Institute of Advanced Sciences, Yokohama National University

Organising Commitee 

Professor Purnendu Das & Dr Yahui Zhang, MA Marine Consultants Ltd, UK

Dr Piotr Omenzetter, University of Aberdeen, UK

Sponsors

GeoSIG, DEWESoft

Key Dates 

Abstract Deadline:     15 March 2024

Final Payment:            26 April 2024

Final Paper:                 24 July 2024

Registration Fees

Virtual conference (online):               £200

Payment

We will send you an invoice after you have registered on the conference. The payment can be made via bank transfer or online credit/debit card payment.