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	संरचनात्मक स्वास्थ्य निगरानी	परिमित तत्व विश्लेषण
क्षेत्र	सिविल इंजीनियरिंग	पदार्थ विज्ञान
परिवार	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
उद्भव वर्ष	1980s–1990s (formalized as a discipline ~1993–2001)	1943
प्रवर्तक	Multiple contributors (Charles Farrar, Keith Worden, and the broader SHM research community)	Richard Courant
प्रकार	Engineering monitoring and diagnostic framework	Computational method
मौलिक स्रोत	Farrar, C. R., & Worden, K. (2007). An introduction to structural health monitoring. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 365(1851), 303–315.	Zienkiewicz, O. C., & Taylor, R. L. (1977). The Finite Element Method in Engineering Science. McGraw-Hill.
उपनाम	SHM, damage detection monitoring, condition monitoring of structures, vibration-based structural monitoring	FEA, finite element method
संबंधित	3	4
सारांश	Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is a process-based engineering methodology used in civil, mechanical, and aerospace engineering to continuously assess the condition of structures — bridges, buildings, dams, pipelines, and aircraft — through embedded or attached sensor networks. By acquiring real-time or periodic measurement data and applying signal processing and statistical pattern recognition, SHM aims to detect, locate, classify, and quantify damage before it reaches a critical state, enabling evidence-based maintenance decisions.	Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is a numerical technique for obtaining approximate solutions to boundary value problems described by differential equations. Developed systematically by Richard Courant in 1943 and popularized by Clough in the 1960s, FEA divides a complex domain into smaller, simpler elements to solve engineering problems involving stress, strain, heat transfer, and fluid flow. It is the dominant computational method in materials science for predicting material behavior under various loading conditions.