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About SHMCA Lab
About SHMCA Lab
The Structural Health Monitoring and Condition Assessment (SHMCA) Lab at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi is dedicated to research and development in the monitoring, assessment, and management of civil infrastructure.
The laboratory focuses on developing reliable and innovative approaches for understanding the behaviour, performance, and condition of structures using structural health monitoring, sensing technologies, structural dynamics, system identification, finite element model updating, Bayesian inference, and data-driven methods.
The research activities of the laboratory include vibration-based structural health monitoring, structural condition assessment, bridge weigh-in-motion, damping analysis, earthquake response and damage detection of bridges, fatigue damage evaluation, distributed optical fiber sensing, MEMS-based sensing, and deep learning for structural health monitoring.
The laboratory aims to bridge the gap between advanced research and practical infrastructure monitoring, with particular emphasis on developing techniques that can support the assessment, maintenance, safety, and long-term performance of bridges and other civil infrastructure.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Samim Mustafa
Principal Investigator: Dr. Samim Mustafa
Dr. Samim Mustafa is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering of Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. Before joining IIT (BHU), he worked as a Post-doctoral researcher in Advanced Research Laboratories of Tokyo City University, where he actively collaborated with various Japanese industries on real-life problems related to Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Condition Assessment. Dr. Mustafa was a recipient of the prestigious MEXT scholarship by the Japanese Government and completed his doctoral study from Saitama University, Japan in 2017. During his doctoral study, he developed an energy-based approach for damping evaluation which was later used as a sensitive feature for identification of local damage in existing truss bridges. He also explored Bayesian model updating frameworks for local damage identification. Dr. Mustafa obtained his B.E. in 2008 with First-class Honours from the Civil Engineering Department of Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur (now known as IIEST), and completed his MTech in Structural Engineering from IIT Guwahati in 2013. He also possesses industrial experience (2008–2010) as a Site Engineer at Larsen & Toubro Ltd., posted at Bokaro Steel Plant. Presently, he is working on developing innovative methods for Bridge Weigh-in-Motion and implementing them in Indian rail and roadway bridges for SHM and fatigue damage identification. He has also served as a reviewer for several reputed international journals and chaired special sessions at conferences worldwide.
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