This book series is an initiative of PPG-Integridade – UnB, organized as a collaborative work involvingresearchers, engineers, scholars, from several institutions, universities, industry, recognized both nationallyand internationally.

The book series is published as an “Open Access”, non-profit, digital version (pdf), with ISBN from UnB, and with D.O.I. generated for the books and for each chapter separately, with the kind support of LAJSS
(https://www.lajss.org/index.php/LAJSS) (https://www.lajss.org/index.php/LAJSS)).

The scope of the Book series is related to the broad areas of interest of LAJSS, and also of associations such as ABCM (https://www.abcm.org.br/ (https://www.abcm.org.br/)) and ABMEC (http://www.abmec.org.br/ (http://www.abmec.org.br/)).

To increase visibility of the Book Series, initial contacts were made with bothassociations, ABCM and ABMEC, for further support for the divulgation of the Book Series effort in theirwebsites, as appropriate.
The book series is an activity related to the Research, Development & Innovation (R,D&I) Project at UnB,entitled: “Technological Demonstration Platform for Inverse Methods and Uncertainty Modeling Integrity ofStructures and Components”, available at the UnB Central Library (in Portuguese) https://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/39570 (https://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/39570)).

The books series encompass the relevant project topics, including chapters covering:

• Fundamentals. Topics covered include: Basic Principles, Concepts & Foundations, for the Direct &Inverse Problems (including model-based and signal-based inverse methods), and for the Modeling of Uncertainties;
• Special Topics, Applications, and Research Review. Topics covered include: Research Review, State-of-the-art & Future Trend Topics, for the Direct & Inverse Problems (including model-based and signal-basedinverse methods), and for the Modeling of Uncertainties.

The different books and/or book chapters were prepared as a collaborative work by researchers, engineers, scholars, involved in research, development and applications in the related areas.

The criteria for the inclusion of books and series of books in the “Portal de Livros Digitais da UnB” can beseen in the link (in Portuguese): https://livros.unb.br/index.php/portal/criterios (https://livros.unb.br/index.php/portal/criterios) Just for reference, criteria for classification of books and book chapters may be found at BOOK QUALIS (inPortuguese): https://www.gov.br/capes/pt-br/centrais-de-conteudo/12062019-proposta-de-classificacao-de-livros-gt-qualislivro-pdf/view (https://www.gov.br/capes/pt-br/centrais-de-conteudo/12062019-proposta-declassificacao-
de-livros-gt-qualislivro-pdf/view).

Book series scope and Instructions for authors (Link for full text of instructions and deadlines (https://www.dropbox.com/s/if1joacbhvc1fy6/UnB-PPGIntegridade_Book-Series-instructions-Rev-2022-03-09.pdf?dl=0))

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