Seismic structural health monitoring : from theory to successful applications This book includes a collection of state of the art contributions addressing both theoretical developments in and successful applications of seismic structural health monitoring (S2HM). Over the past few decades Seismic SHM has expanded considerably due to the growing demand among various stakeholders (owners managers and engineering professionals) and researchers. The discipline has matured in the process as can be seen by the number of S2HM systems currently installed worldwide. Furthermore the responses recorded by S2HM systems hold great potential both with regard to the management of emergency situations and to ordinary maintenance needs. The book’s 17 chapters prepared by leading international experts are divided into four major sections. The first comprises six chapters describing the specific requirements of S2HM systems for different types of civil structures and infrastructures (buildings bridges cultural heritage dams structures with base isolation devices) and for monitoring different phenomena (e.g. soil structure interaction and excessive drift). The second section describes available methods and computational tools for data processing while the third is dedicated to hardware and software tools for S2HM. In the book’s closing section five chapters report on state of the art applications of S2HM around the world