A Review of Studies in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)

India is a country of diversity not only in terms of culture and population but also in terms of landscape ranging from snow-capped mountains to desserts, plateaus, plains and hills. The climatic conditions in India vary from extremely hot to extremely cold resulting in the requirement of different types of constructions in each region subjected to its temperature, geographical and climate conditions. India is a county where thousands of years old buildings are still standing strong despite several changes in various factors over the years, whereas a few years old building collapses more easily, which raises the most important question in our mind regarding the Structural health of buildings over the years and how Well structure health monitoring is done in India. Structural Health Monitoring is defined as a process of identification of damage for aerospace, mechanical and civil infrastructure. Performance of the structures are determined by various factors such as the age of the building, material used, service condition and layout of the structure besides performance, safety, reliability and serviceability are also the crucial points. SHM technology is implemented in various countries like Europe, USA, Korea, Japan etc. for monitoring of large structures. The main aim behind the implementation of SHM is to determine the damage during initiation itself so that the further damage propagation can be ceased by an alarm in the initial stage with the help of continuous monitoring by structurally integrated sensors. © 2019 The Authors. Published by Budapest University of Technology and Economics & Diamond Congress Ltd. Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the Creative Construction Conference 2019.