ABSTRACT
Rapid development in smart and bio-inspired materials, sensing technology, control technology, robotics technology, information technology, computation simulation and life-cycle management (LCM) will eventually overcome the remaining challenging issues for the realisation of prototype truly smart civil structures. Basically, life-cycle cost and structural performance are two basic but conflicting objectives in decision-making concerning LCMs of conventional civil structures. The LCMs of smart civil structures may be conducted with a similar goal in mind, but in a much more complicated process. An adaptive concurrent image-based multi-scale modelling method was developed and applied to simulate the damage evolution and failure process of concrete and steel structures. The multi-scale model of both the joints and the control devices can then be used together with hybrid tests in structural vibration control. In a smart civil structure, control devices are often installed at structural joints, which make the damage evolution and failure of the joints more complicated.
