Table of contents preface keynote presentations new technology frontiers on commercial aircrafts a new look in design of intelligent structures with shm the multidisciplinary approach to shm the challenge of long span suspended bridges towards damage and structural health monitoring of aerospace composite structures using optical fiber sensors monitoring of civil structures . structural health monitoring 2006 02 06 uploaded by richard scarry structural health monitoring 2006 proceedings of the third european workshop alfredo guemes destech publications inc 2006 technology engineering 1434 pages structural health monitoring a contribution to the intelligent aircraft structure holger speckmann henrik. Definition of structural health monitoring 13 12 motivation for structural health monitoring 15 13 structural health monitoring as a way of making materials and structures smart 18 14 shm and biomimetics 21 15 process and pre usage monitoring as a part of shm 24 16 shm as a part of system management 26 17. Structural health monitoring shm is one of the major contributions for future smart structures other examples are passive or active adaptive structures and self healing structures shm is a new and alternative way of non destructive inspection ndi in order to ensure the structural integrity of aircraft structures 1. Nde structural health monitoring laboratory department of structural engineering university of california san diego 9500 gilman drive mc 0085 la jolla ca 92093 0085 usa email protected see all articles by this author