Preface

Abstract

These are the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures (DAMAS 2021), which was grandly held from October 29 to November 1, 2021 in Shanghai, China. The conference proceeding was published by the Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP). The conference aimed at providing a platform for in-depth communication for all academic and industrial colleagues and promoting the academic exchange and cooperation between domestic and foreign scholars in the field of structural damage assessment in theory, testing and engineering practice.There are six sessions devoted to theories, methodologies and applications for this symposium, such as machine condition monitoring and fault diagnosis, engineering structure and system damage assessment, intelligent materials and structures, micro/nanostructures and composites. In DAMAS 2021, more than 500 experts and scholars at home and abroad online and offline attended this conference. The conference recruited more than 90 papers, invited well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad to share the latest research results, set up a main venue and 6 sub venues, set up 3 plenary keynotes including 2 overseas plenary keynotes, and set up 12 specially invited keynotes including 5 oversea invited keynotes reports and 52 sub venues. The Conference Chairs would like to express sincere appreciations to authors, reviewers and presenters who made this conference so enjoyable, as well as 3 invited plenary keynote speakers and 12 keynote speakers for their excellent and attractive speeches. Thanks go to the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Shanghai Jiao Tong University for the sponsor. Special thanks also to Tsinghua University, East China University of Technology, Ningxia University, Hunan Institute of Engineering and University of Huddersfield for their co-sponsors. Prof. Shan-Tung Tu and Prof. Zhike Peng Jan. 15, 2022