Recently, there has been a growing interest in deploying smart materials as sensing
components of structural health monitoring systems. In this arena, piezoelectric materials …

An increase in system-level efficiency and multifunctionality of products and components is
one of the main advantages of the use of some novel polyvalent materials and structures …

In response to the marked increase in research activity and publications in multifunctional
materials and structures in the last few years, this article is an attempt to identify the topics …

In this paper we summarize the hardware and software issues of impedance-based
structural health monitoring based on piezoelectric materials. The basic concept of the …

The capability of embedded piezoelectric wafer active sensors (PWAS) to excite and detect
tuned Lamb waves for structural health monitoring is explored. First, a brief review of Lamb …

ASMART structure involves distributed actuators and sensors and one or more
microprocessors that analyze the responses from the sensors and use integrated control …

Piezoelectric wafer active sensors may be applied on aging aircraft structures to monitor the
onset and progress of structural damage such as fatigue cracks and corrosion. The state of …

The utilization and effectiveness of a custom-made, portable and low-cost structural health
monitoring (SHM) system that implements the PZT-based electro-mechanical admittance …

The electromechanical impedance (EMI) technique, which employs piezoelectric–ceramic
lead–zirconate–titarate (PZT) patches as impedance transducers, has emerged as a …

A spatially distributed array of single element piezoelectric transducers is considered for
monitoring the integrity of plate-like structures over large areas. When these permanently …