Product Description These two new volumes plus an accompanying CD-RM offer 244 original presentations containing research and solutions to how increasingly sophisticated sensors and sensor arrays can be built into materials and structures and networked to provide reliable ongoing data. Based on the 6th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, held in September 2007, this book presents models, plans, and examples useful for standardizing and implementing SHM devices. The technology found only in this book and not published elsewhere is critical for the safety monitoring of civil structures, as well as ships and aircraft, incorporating many types of engineered materials such as composites and newly designed smart materials. Special sessions cover emerging applications in areas such as energy harvesting. 244 original and extensively reviewed papers on all phases of SHM A unique resource for civil, transportation, aeronautics and military applications New material on bio-inspired sensor networks, novel sensing technologies, ground and air vehicle applications, energy harvesting, wind energy, novel repair techniques Covers modeling, testing, self diagnosis and calibration issues Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Army Research Office EXAMPLES OFCONTENT: Aerospace, Aircraft, Rotorcraft, Launch Systems: Monitoring Fatigue Damage in Bolted Joints*Thermal Protection* SHM in Satellites* Highly Reliable Advanced Grid Structure* Real-Time Flight Flutter Detection* Civil Infrastructures, Offshore Pipelines, Power Plants, Diagnostics: Novel Fiber-Optic Accelerometer* Corrosion Monitoring of RC-Reinforcements* Novel Sensors for Humidity in Concrete* Stochastic Optical Fiber Sensors* Overhead Transmission Lines* Particle Swarm Optimization Diagnostics: Supercalender Vibration* Gearboxes* Missile Communication* Wheel End Spindle Integrated SHM Design: Autonomous Wireless