Structural Health Monitoring: Sensing Device Technology in Recent Industrial Applications

With continuous rapid development of sensor technology, structural health monitoring system (SHMS) managed to be developed and employed in various kind of structures or component. The aim of this chapter is to give a brief review on recent sensing technology that had been used in structural health monitoring system towards industrial application. There are various field of engineering that utilize different kind of sensor to measure and evaluate in real-time assessment on the structural behaviour/performance under such loads for further maintenance actions or in optimizing a design. Even though SHMS showed many advantages in take care of the structure, it also shows several drawback that causing it not been used widely. However, it is believe that in the next 15 years, the SHMS will become a needs in multi-industry and sub industry level in their structures or components, as the world are now moving towards industrial 4.0.