Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) techniques enable continuously acquiring information that can support asset management decisions. Despite their several advantages the adoption of SHM systems at a large scale still encounters difficulties due to their perceived high cost and the difficulty to estimate the return on investment before their implementation. The Value of Information (VoI) analysis from Bayesian decision analysis can be used to quantify the benefits associated with SHM information in supporting the selection of optimal asset management actions. The activity of the research group in this field has been mainly devoted to the quantification of the VoI from SHM to support the selection of optimal emergency management actions such as restrictions of traffic on bridges and networks of bridges during floods or seismic events and evacuation of buildings after an earthquake. The impact of structural deterioration and the possible deterioration of the SHM system on the VoI is currently being investigated.
Journal Papers
Giordano, P.F., Quqa, S., & Limongelli, M.P. (2023). The Value of monitoring a Structural Health Monitoring System. Structural Safety, 100, 102280. DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2022.102280
Giordano, P.F., & Limongelli, M.P. (2022). The Benefit of Informed Risk-Based Management of Civil Infrastructures. Infrastructures, 7(12), 165. DOI: 10.3390/infrastructures7120165
Giordano P. F., Iacovino C., Quqa Q., Limongelli M.P. (2022). The value of seismic structural health monitoring for post-earthquake building evacuation. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering 20, 4367–4393. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-022-01375-2
Giordano, P.F., Prendergast, L.J., & Limongelli, M.P. (2022). Quantifying the value of SHM information for bridges under flood-induced scour. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. DOI: 10.1080/15732479.2022.2048030.
Iannacone, L., Giordano, P.F., Gardoni, P., & Limongelli, M.P. (2022). Quantifying the value of information from inspecting and monitoring engineering systems subject to gradual and shock deterioration. Structural Health Monitoring, 21(1), 72–89. DOI: 10.1177/1475921720981869.
Giordano P. F., Limongelli M. P. (2020). The value of structural health monitoring in seismic emergency management of bridges, Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1080/15732479.2022.2048030
Giordano P.F, Prendergast Luke J., Limongelli, M.P.(2020). A framework for assessing the value of information for health monitoring of scoured bridges. Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring https://doi.org/10.1007/s13349-020-00398-0
Conference Papers
Giordano, P.F., & Limongelli, M.P. (2023). Value of information analysis accounting for sensor data quality: focus on drift. 1st Latin-American Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (LATAM-SHM 2023), Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, December 5-7, 2023
Giordano, P.F., Iannacone, L., & Limongelli, M.P. (2023). Value of Seismic Structural Health Monitoring Information for management of civil structures under different prior knowledge scenarios. 10th International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures (EVACES 2023), Milan, Italy, August 30 – September 1, 2023
Costa, G., Limongelli, M.P. and Thöns, S. (2023). Forecasting the Value of Vibration-Based Monitoring Information in Structural Integrity Management. 10th International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures (EVACES 2023), Milan, Italy, August 30 – September 1, 2023
Costa, G., Limongelli, M.P., Thöns, S. (2023). On the utilization of multiple information for the integrity management of deteriorating systems, Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2023), Milan, Italy, July, 2023
Giordano, P.F., Quqa, S., & Limongelli, M.P. (2023). Structural management and Value of Information analysis accounting for sensor data quality. 14th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP14), Dublin, Ireland, July 9-13, 2023.
Costa, G., Thöns, S., Limongelli, M.P. (2023). On the Value of Information forecasting with multi-information systems. 14th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP14), Dublin, Ireland, July 9-13, 2023.
Thöns, S., Costa, G., Limongelli, M.P. and Sousa, H. (2023). Review of innovation theories in the perspective of Bayesian decision analysis. 14th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP14), Dublin, Ireland, July 9-13, 2023.
Giordano, P.F., Quqa, S., & Limongelli, M.P. (2023). Value of Information analysis accounting for data quality. Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering 12486, 1248613.
Limongelli M.P., Giordano P.F. (2022). The value of vibration-based monitoring for bridge emergency management. 8th International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation. Cape Town. September 5-7, 2022. Keynote lecture.
Limongelli M.P., Giordano P.F. (2022). The Value of Structural Health Monitoring information for emergency management. SHMII-11 Montreal, Canada. August 8-12, 2022. Keynote lecture.
Giordano, P.F., Quqa, S., & Limongelli, M.P. (2022). Impact of decision scenarios on the Value of Seismic Structural Health Monitoring. 10th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (10th EWSHM), Palermo, Italy, July 4-7, 2022.
Iannacone L., Giordano P. F., Gardoni P., Limongelli M. P. (2022). A renewal theory formulation for the quantification of the benefits of structural health monitoring doi:10.1007/978-3-030-91877-4_33
Giordano, P.F., Iannacone, L., Gardoni, P., & Limongelli, M.P. (2022). Effects of network connectivity on the Value of Information. The 13th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR 2021), September 13-17, 2022, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, 2022. (Online)
Giordano, P.F., Quqa, S., & Limongelli, M.P. (2021). A method to assess the value of monitoring an SHM system. 14th International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures (DAMAS 2021), Shanghai (China), October 29 – November 1, 2021. (Online)
Giordano, P.F., Prendergast, L.J., & Limongelli, M.P. (2021). The value of different monitoring systems in the management of scoured bridges. EVACES 2021: 9th International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures, September 14-17, 2021 (Online)
Thons S., Irman A.A., Limongelli M.P. (2021). On uncertainty, decision values, and innovation. ICUME. 4th International Conference on Uncertainty in Mechanical Engineering. Darmstadt, Germany. June 7-8 (2021). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-77256-7_20
Giordano, P.F., & Limongelli, M.P. (2021). The value of seismic structural health monitoring for road bridges. 10th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure, Porto, Portugal, June 30-July 2, 2021 (Online).
Giordano P.F., Iannacone L., Limongelli M.P., Gardoni P. (2020) Value of Information analysis for degrading engineering systems. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, IALCCE 2020, 671-678. doi:10.1201/9780429343292-87
Giordano P.F., Prendergast L. J., Limongelli M. P. (2020). Impact of climate change on the Value of Information for bridges at risk of scour. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, IALCCE 2020, 435-442. doi:10.1201/9780429343292-55
Iannacone L., Gardoni P., Giordano P.F., Limongelli M.P. (2019). Decision making based on the Value of Information of different inspection methods. 12th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford, California (USA), 1479-1486. ISBN: 978-160595601-5
Giordano P.F., Miraglia S., Limongelli M.P (2019). The benefit of permanent monitoring for seismic emergency management. SHMII-9th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructures. 400-405. St Louis, Missouri. August 4-7, 2019.
Limongelli M.P., Miraglia S., Fathi A. (2019). The Value of visual inspections for emergency management of bridges under seismic hazard. IALCCE. Ghent, October 2018. ISBN: 978-113862633-1.
Limongelli M.P., Omenzetter P., Yazgan U., Soyoz S. (2017). Quantifying the value of monitoring for post-earthquake emergency management of bridges Procs 39th IABSE Symposium – Engineering the Future September 21-23 2017, Vancouver, Canada
Thöns S. Limongelli M.P., Mandic Ivankovic A., Val D., Chryssanthopoulos M., Lombaert G., Döhler M., Straub D., Chatzi E., Köhler J., Wenzel H., Sørensen J. (2017). Progress of the COST Action TU1402 on the Quantification of the Value of Structural Health Monitoring. Proc of the IWSHM 2017. The 11th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring. September 12-14, 2017, Stanford, California, USA.
Omenzetter P., Limongelli M.P., Yazgan U., Soyoz S. (2017). Quantifying the value of SHM for emergency management of bridges at-risk from seismic damage based on their performance indicators. Procs of the JOINT COST TU1402 – COST TU1406 – IABSE WC1 WORKSHOP: The Value of Structural Health Monitoring for the Reliable Bridge Management. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5592/CO/BSHM2017.4.5
Omenzetter P., Limongelli M.P., Yazgan U., (2016). Quantifying the value of seismic monitoring. 8th European Workshop On Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM 2016), pp. 510-519. 5-8 July 2016, Spain, Bilbao.
Special issue
Thons S., Limongelli M.P., Zonta D., Dagang L. (2019). Structural Health Monitoring: A Value of Information Perspective ‘ on Structural Health Monitoring Journal. Sage editor