Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is critical in ensuring safety and reliability, areas easily compromised if not monitored with a broad range of necessary tools and techniques. Locating concealed ...

A new dual-module system combining YOLOv8 and the Swin Transformer shows that AI can detect structural cracks more quickly and accurately than humans. This offers a significant upgrade in how building ...

Cracking is a natural, expected, and accepted behavior of concrete. However, cracks may affect the appearance, function, durability, service life, or more seriously, the structural integrity of the ...

Foundation cracks are one of those problems that can look catastrophic even when they are mostly cosmetic, and barely visible even when they signal real structural trouble. If you understand which ...