Artificial Intelligence for EM Problem Set (D&D) – Structural Health Monitoring of D&D Facility to Identify Cracks and Structural Defects for Surveillance and Maintenance

Structural health monitoring is imperative to the ongoing surveillance and maintenance (S&M) across the DOE complex. As these facilities await decommissioning, there is a need to understand the structural health of these structures. Many of these facilities were built over 50 years ago and, in some cases, these facilities have gone beyond operational life expectancy. In any of these scenarios, the structural integrity of these facilities may be compromised, so it is imperative that adequate inspections are performed with the minimal intervention of the human need to be performed on a continuous and ongoing basis.