The core research is focused on the use of remote and NDT sensors, combined with AI-based data analysis methods to automate the assessment, diagnosis and information modelling of existing structural systems.
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Team
MonitoRED is integrated by research groups in structural engineering from 11 Spanish universities.
Research focused on improving the resilience of buildings and bridges, combining structural assessment, robustness and large-scale experimental campaigns.
Development of NDT-MDT for the mechanical characterisation and SHM of heritage structures and existing bridges, integrating survey, BIM and advanced modelling.
The research includes structural dynamics, structural health monitoring, energy harvesting, wave propagation, railway traffic, and historic structures by experimental techniques for assessment, diagnosis, and predictive maintenance.
They devote their research activity to railway induced vibration problems mainly on railway bridges. The soil-bridge-track-vehicle interaction problem is tackled numerically and experimentally. AI techniques are applied for model updating based on experimental measurements.
The main research fields are Non-Minor Destructive Testing (N-MDT) applied to masonry and timber structures, SHM, diagnosis and information modeling (BIM) of existing constructions, specially buildings (both historical and contemporary).
The main expertise is in the dynamic monitoring of structures by OMA and the damage detection in masonry structures, including full-scale tests on structures under earthquake loads, among the problems in long-term monitoring of structures like belltowers, chimneys or bridges.
Nondestructive inspection, Structural and thermal monitoring, Structural dynamics monitoring, Structural health monitoring, Fatigue analysis and monitoring, Fire safety, Nonlinear finite element analysis, Design of experiments, Operational modal analysis, Model correlation and updating.
With expertise in structural dynamic analyses, focusing on pedestrian and railway bridges (including load modelling, vibration control, serviceability and continuous monitoring assessment), and the numerical modelling and monitoring of historical and modern buildings.
Non-destructive evaluation and SHM of historical and modern infrastructures, with special focus on continuous operational modal analysis, data fusion, unsupervised/supervised damage identification, and Bayesian methods.
The group's activities in recent years have specialised in the dynamic identification of slender structures, assessment of the serviceability limit state, the installation of passive vibration mitigation devices and the monitoring of structural timber heritage structures.
