Machine learning for structural health monitoring: challenges and opportunities

FG Yuan, SA Zargar, Q Chen… - Sensors and smart …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A physics-based approach to structural health monitoring (SHM) has practical shortcomings
which restrict its suitability to simple structures under well controlled environments. With the …

Recent advances in piezoelectric wafer active sensors for structural health monitoring applications

H Mei, MF Haider, R Joseph, A Migot, V Giurgiutiu - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this paper, some recent piezoelectric wafer active sensors (PWAS) progress achieved in
our laboratory for active materials and smart structures (LAMSS) at the University of South …

Detection and classification of matrix cracking in laminated composites using guided wave propagation and artificial neural networks

A Mardanshahi, V Nasir, S Kazemirad… - Composite Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
The guided wave propagation and artificial intelligence (AI) approaches were used to
propose an intelligent model for automatic detection and classification of the matrix cracking …

Delamination damage imaging method of CFRP composite laminate plates based on the sensitive guided wave mode

H Zhang, J Sun, X Rui, S Liu - Composite Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
This research is related to a detection and imaging method of delamination damage in
CFRP composite laminate structures. Conventional guided wave detection methods often …

Guided wave scattering at a delamination in a quasi-isotropic composite laminate: Experiment and simulation

F Hervin, L Maio, P Fromme - Composite Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon fibre composite laminates are increasingly being used for aerospace structures due
to their low weight and improved mechanical performance. Impact damage can cause …

Composite laminate delamination simulation and experiment: A review of recent development

A Tabiei, W Zhang - Applied Mechanics Reviews, 2018 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Composite laminate has extensive usage in the aerospace and automotive industries. Thus
delamination, one of its most prevalent and challenging failure modes, has attracted …

Impact induced damage assessment by means of Lamb wave image processing

P Kudela, M Radzienski, W Ostachowicz - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2018 - Elsevier
The aim of this research is an analysis of full wavefield Lamb wave interaction with impact-
induced damage at various impact energies in order to find out the limitation of the …

Simulation of guided-wave ultrasound propagation in composite laminates: Benchmark comparisons of numerical codes and experiment

CAC Leckey, KR Wheeler, VN Hafiychuk, H Hafiychuk… - Ultrasonics, 2018 - Elsevier
Ultrasonic wave methods constitute the leading physical mechanism for nondestructive
evaluation (NDE) and structural health monitoring (SHM) of solid composite materials, such …

Pure S0 and SH0 detections of various damage types in aerospace composites

H Mei, MF Haider, R James, V Giurgiutiu - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a new single-mode guided wave-based method to detect various types
of damage in aerospace composites. In this method, single-mode guided wave excitation …

[HTML][HTML] Full wavefield processing by using FCN for delamination detection

AA Ijjeh, S Ullah, P Kudela - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2021 - Elsevier
A novel full wavefield processing method by using fully convolutional neural networks is
presented. The full wavefield of propagating Lamb waves in the fibre-reinforced composite …