เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	การเฝ้าระวังสุขภาพโครงสร้าง	การวิเคราะห์ไฟไนต์เอลิเมนต์
สาขาวิชา	วิศวกรรมโยธา	วัสดุศาสตร์
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1980s–1990s (formalized as a discipline ~1993–2001)	1943
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Multiple contributors (Charles Farrar, Keith Worden, and the broader SHM research community)	Richard Courant
ประเภท	Engineering monitoring and diagnostic framework	Computational method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	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.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	SHM, damage detection monitoring, condition monitoring of structures, vibration-based structural monitoring	FEA, finite element method
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	3	4
สรุป	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.