Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning technology has had widespread applications in the structural health monitoring as its overall performance has improved significantly in the last two decades. It is capable of providing timely and accurate structural vibration information such as dynamic displacements and modal frequencies at higher performance than traditional accelerometers. The studies summarized in this paper focus on the improvement of the multi‐sensors and multi‐constellation data acquisition techniques, the improvement of multiple approaches for erroneous noise mitigation, and innovative modal parameter identification methods. We also detailed the applications of GNSS on the deformation monitoring for towers, chimneys, tall buildings, and bridges. With continuous enhancements in the algorithm and hardware of GNSS, it is expected that the application of GNSS technology can be expanded to other fields such as bridge cable‐force measurements and bridge weight‐in‐motion as well as structural deformation monitoring.

The debonding between the steel tube and the confined concrete core of concrete-filled steel tubes (CFSTs) can weaken the confinement effect of the steel tube on the concrete core and may induce a decrease in the load-carrying capacity and in the ductility. The debonding detection technique for CFSTs is still a challenging problem resulting from the inaccessibility and invisibility of the interface. In this paper, by embedding piezoelectric lead zirconate titanate (PZT) based functional smart aggregates (SAs) in concrete core as actuators and pasting PZT patches on the predetermined locations of the outer surfaces of the specimen as sensors, a novel active interface condition monitoring approach for rectangular CFST members is proposed and is experimentally validated with a scale rectangular CFST specimen with artificial debonding defects. Analysis of the wavelet packet energy spectrum (WPES) of the measurements of PZT patches is carried out, and a damage index, called the weighted variation of WP...