Summer Course on Structural Health Monitoring 2027 (5th Edition)

BIP - Blended Intensive Program

5 ECTS | June 14-18, 2027, in person (30h) | 15h remotely | MSc and PhD Students

We are happy to announce the 5th Edition of the Summer Course on Structural Health Monitoring. The in-person sessions will take place in Lisbon from June 14 to 18, 2027. With are preparing a new pack of upgrades. Stay tuned!

This blended intensive summer course, funded by the Erasmus+ Program, focuses on structural health monitoring (SHM), with 15 hours of remote sessions and 30 hours of in-person sessions. The main goal of this summer course is to introduce the concept of SHM applied to bridges and special civil structures to MSc and PhD students from several European institutions.

The SHM is posed in the context of a statistical pattern recognition paradigm, rooted in the artificial intelligence field to support the damage identification and risk-informed integrity management. Machine learning algorithms are essential to perform damage identification, by learning (or modeling) the structural behavior from the experience (past data), following the same principle of the human brain.

In order to balance the general concept and the applicability of SHM, this course has been designed to allow students to gain a basic knowledge of SHM with hands-on experiences to demonstrate how SHM can be used for assessing the condition of structural systems, along with the lectures to give some insight into the theory and application examples.

Keywords

Structural Health Monitoring, Bridges, Wind Turbines, Machine Learning, Finite Element Modeling, Digital Twins, Risk, Resilience, Value of Information, Climate Change

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A Transcript of Records and a Certificate of Attendance will be issued at the end of the course.
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This is an international course that involves a lot of people, so there may be changes at any time.
Last update: September 23, 2026.