Meet the editor

Professor Maguid H.M. Hassan earned his PhD in Structural Reliability from the University of Maryland at College Park, USA. He participated in the establishment of Civil Engineering programs at several private higher education establishments in Egypt. He was awarded a Fulbright teaching/research grant in 2004 where he taught structural engineering courses at the University of Maryland at College Park for one academic year

and conducted his research. Prof. Hassan joined the British University in Egypt (BUE) in 2006 to establish the Civil Engineering Department. In September 2013, Prof. Hassan was appointed Associate Dean for Research, Post Graduate Studies and Community Services. In November 2014 he was appointed Dean of Engineering. Prof. Hassan's research interests include smart structural systems, structural health monitoring, structural reliability, structural steel analysis and design, applications of fuzzy logic and neural networks and smart structural control.

Contents

*by Maguid H.M. Hassan*

*by Yoann Hebrard*

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 5**

**Chapter 3 23**

**Chapter 4 39**

**Chapter 5 55**

**Chapter 6 75**

**Chapter 7 97**

Nanotechnology and Development of Strain Sensor for Damage Detection *by Yumna Qureshi, Mostapha Tarfaoui, Khalil K. Lafdi and Khalid Lafdi*

Introductory Chapter: Advances in Structural Health Monitoring

The Importance of Emissivity on Monitoring and Conservation of

Monitoring of Critical Metallic Assets in Oil and Gas Industry Using

Application of a Frequency-Based Detection Method for Evaluating

Applications of Infrared Thermography for Non-destructive

*by Ravibabu Mulaveesala, Geetika Dua and Vanita Arora*

*by Anurag Dhutti, Shehan Lowe and Tat-Hean Gan*

*by Kodai Matsuoka and Tsutomu Watanabe*

Structural Health Monitoring from Sensing to Processing

Wooden Structures Using Infrared Thermography

*by João Crisóstomo and Rui Pitarma*

Ultrasonic Guided Waves

Damaged Concrete Sleepers

Characterization of Concrete Structures
