ABSTRACT
During the past two decades, some of safe, comfortable and effective engineering structures were achieved in the fields of smart structures and systems, but the reality is that we have not yet realized the goal of any real intelligent structures and systems. The future work is still very tough. This paper gives a review of recent progresses in this field. In the first part, the human-faced threats are simply introduced. The second part mainly gives the bionic concept of intelligent structures and systems and its definition. In the third part, we focus on the realistic state of arts, as examples of the applications for smart structures and systems, the bridge structural health monitoring systems, and vehicle adaptive suspension systems based on the MR damper, which have been developed by Chongqing University, are detailed shown and explained, some of the monitoring and control results are given. In the end, the near further research items and the future perspective of intelligent structures and systems are presented.
