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Health Monitoring

Structural Health Monitoring Lab

About

Structural Health Monitoring Lab (SHM-Lab) focuses on the development of next-generation sensing, diagnostics, and prognostics technologies for safe, reliable, and resilient engineering systems. Our research integrates physics-based modeling, advanced sensing, signal processing, and machine learning to enable real-time condition assessment and damage diagnosis in complex structures.

The lab addresses critical challenges in aerospace, energy, nuclear, and civil infrastructure systems, where traditional inspection methods are often costly, intrusive, or insufficient for large-area and complex geometries. By combining non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques with data-driven intelligence, the SHM Lab aims to transition laboratory innovations into deployable, field-ready technologies.

Research Vision

Our vision is to enable continuous, reliable, and scalable structural health monitoring by moving beyond point-based inspections toward global, intelligent sensing systems. We seek to answer fundamental and applied questions such as:

  • How can sparse sensor networks provide comprehensive damage information?
  • How can AI enhance guided-wave and vibration-based diagnostics for complex structures?
  • How can SHM technologies be integrated into real-world systems with minimal added cost?

News

  • [Sep - 2026] - Seed Grant: “Mechanistic Understanding of Lamb Wave Interaction with Multi-Scale Manufacturing Flaws in Composite Structures” AY 2026-27 Provost Seed Grant, Florida Institute of Technology 
  • [Sep - 2026] - Conference: Participated and presented our research at QNDE international conference. 
  • [May - 2026] - Grant: “Artificial Intelligence (AI) Model Development and Test” Research Contract, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • [May - 2026] - Masters Defense: Mariane Rocha successfully defended her thesis titled "Transfer Learning for Acoustic Damage Recognition Across Complex Geometries Using Sparse Sensor Networks"
  • [Jan - 2026] – Conference: Participated in 2026 AIAA, SciTech Conference
  • [Oct - 2025] – Symposium: Our team members participated in 2025 SpaceU symposium and presented their work as poster.
  • [Oct - 2025] - Seed Grant: “Establishing an Acoustic Measurement Platform for Structural Health Monitoring of Critical Aerospace Components” AY 2025-26 Provost Seed Grant, Florida Institute of Technology