From November 16 to 18, the 2nd International Innovation Competition for Rail Transit Structural Health Monitoring concluded at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre in Singapore. The research team from our School delivered an outstanding performance, securing several important honors including the Outstanding Award, the Excellence Award, and an Excellent Paper Award.

It is reported that this competition was held in conjunction with the 4th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring. The workshop, themed “Green, Intelligent, and Efficient” operation and maintenance, was jointly guided by organizations including the China Railway Society and CRRC Corporation Limited, and co-hosted by entities such as the National Key Laboratory of High-Speed Maglev Transportation Technology and Singapore’s SMRT Group. The event attracted representatives from renowned universities, research institutions, and enterprises across more than 20 countries and regions worldwide. Nearly a hundred competition entries vied on the same stage, making it a highly authoritative and influential international event in the field of rail transit structural health monitoring.

In this competition, the team led by Professor Wang Tiantian and Associate Professor Yang Jinsong stood out: their project “Damage Diagnosis of Aluminum Alloy Structures” won the Outstanding Award, and “Damage Prediction of Composite Materials” won the Excellence Award. The academic paper titled ‘Fatigue life prediction method considering material discreteness based on Lamb waves,’ supervised by the two faculty members, was recognized as an Excellent Paper. Furthermore, the two supervising faculty members were awarded the “Instructor Award.” All achievements received high recognition from the judging panel for their outstanding technological innovation and engineering application value.