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Oliver Myers
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Clemson University
244 Fluor Daniel Engineering Innovation Building, Clemson, SC 29634, USA
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Kenneth J Loh
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Davis
1 Shields Avenue 3155 Engineering III, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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Andrew Swartz
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Michigan Tech
1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI 49931, USA
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The 2013 ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS) was held on 16–18 September 2013, in Snowbird, UT. As in the previous years, the conference provided a unique forum for the sharing and dissemination of leading research in adaptive structures, intelligent systems, and structural health monitoring (SHM). Participants enjoyed a distinctive refreshing mountain setting, a place of beauty and inspiration at the Snowbird Resort and Conference Center.
The field of SHM has been steadily growing over the past decade. Its interdisciplinary nature requires seamless integration of advances in structural mechanics, sensor technology, damage diagnosis, measurements and instrumentation, signal processing, and event classification. Essentially, SHM is a system-level problem that continues to attract researchers from multiple disciplines and generates substantial interest at conferences and symposia. The SMASIS Symposium on Structural Health Monitoring/NDE was no exception. The symposium indeed received a notable number of papers in popular areas of SHM, but it also revealed new trends and applications that were not previously considered as separate SHM subjects. Examples include topics in SHM of space structures and prognostics and health management of electronic systems. These unique features of the symposium are highlighted in this Special Issue of the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, which includes selected papers representing a broad spectrum of discussed topics. All papers considered for this Special Issue were subjected to the established peer review procedures of the journal.
We would like to thank authors for contributing manuscripts to this Special Issue, reviewers for their tireless efforts in evaluating submitted papers, and journal editors, Professor Daniel Inman and Professor Norman Wereley, for their continued support and guidance. The symposium organizers would also like to acknowledge sponsorship of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) as well as the generous support of the Conference General Chair Nancy Johnson and Conference Technical Chairs Andrei Zagrai and Ralph Smith.