Structural health monitoring (SHM) is being widely evaluated by the aerospace industry as a
method to improve the safety and reliability of aircraft structures and also reduce operational …

Composite materials have been widely used in many industries due to their excellent
mechanical properties. It is difficult to analyze the integrity and durability of composite …

Ultrasonic guided wave is a promising technique for structural health monitoring and
nondestructive testing. However, due to the anisotropy and complexity of composite …

The most common researched area of damage in a composite material such as carbon fibre
reinforced plastics (CFRP) used currently in aircraft construction is barely visible impact …

Piezoelectric sensors are increasingly being used in active structural health monitoring, due
to their durability, light weight and low power consumption. In the present work damage …

Aircraft smart skin technology requires the integration of large-scale, lightweight, and
integrative sensor networks with aircraft structural skin, but it is difficult to directly …

Large-area, lightweight and flexible sensing networks are highly demanded in complex
(either in structural topology or material property) structural health monitoring (SHM) …

Guided wave attenuation in composites due to material dam** is strong, anisotropic, and
cannot be neglected. Material dam** is a critical parameter in selection of a particular …

Aircraft smart skin needs to integrate a large number of piezoelectric (PZT) elements and
wires for structural health monitoring (SHM), which not only add considerable weight to …

Structural health monitoring techniques (SHM) for material damage identification have
demonstrated higher sensitivity and accuracy when relying on the assessment of nonlinear …