Automated fatigue damage detection and classification technique for composite structures using Lamb waves and deep autoencoder

H Lee, HJ Lim, T Skinner, A Chattopadhyay… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents the development of a robust automatic damage diagnosis technique
that uses ultrasonic Lamb waves and a deep autoencoder (DAE) to detect and classify …

Visualization of hidden delamination and debonding in composites through noncontact laser ultrasonic scanning

B Park, YK An, H Sohn - Composites science and technology, 2014 - Elsevier
This study proposes a complete noncontact laser ultrasonic wavefield imaging technique to
automatically detect and visualize hidden delamination and debonding in composite …

Delamination detection and quantification on laminated composite structures with Lamb waves and wavenumber analysis

Z Tian, L Yu, C Leckey - Journal of Intelligent Material …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Laminated composites are susceptible to delamination due to their weak transverse tensile
and interlaminar shear strengths as compared to their in-plane properties. Delamination …

Low frequency ultrasonic guided wave propagation through honeycomb sandwich structures with non-uniform core thickness

AK Mitra, AA Aradhye, DM Joglekar - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Honeycomb core sandwich structures (HCSSs) are used prevalently in the aerospace and
marine industries. Use of guided wave-based inspections has attracted much attention in the …

A nonlinear ultrasonic SHM method for impact damage localisation in composite panels using a sparse array of piezoelectric PZT transducers

C Andreades, GPM Fierro, M Meo - Ultrasonics, 2020 - Elsevier
Structural health monitoring techniques (SHM) for material damage identification have
demonstrated higher sensitivity and accuracy when relying on the assessment of nonlinear …

Identification of disbond and high density core region in a honeycomb composite sandwich structure using ultrasonic guided waves

S Sikdar, S Banerjee - Composite Structures, 2016 - Elsevier
The aim of this study is to identify disbond and high-density (HD) core region in a
honeycomb composite sandwich structure (HCSS) using ultrasonic guided waves (GWs) …

An energy-efficient cyber-physical system for wireless on-board aircraft structural health monitoring

H Fu, Z Sharif-Khodaei, MHF Aliabadi - Mechanical systems and signal …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, an energy-efficient cyber-physical system using piezoelectric transducers
(PZTs) and wireless sensor networks (WSN) is proposed, designed and experimentally …

Reference-free fatigue crack detection using nonlinear ultrasonic modulation under various temperature and loading conditions

HJ Lim, H Sohn, MP DeSimio, K Brown - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2014 - Elsevier
This study presents a reference-free fatigue crack detection technique using nonlinear
ultrasonic modulation. When low frequency (LF) and high frequency (HF) inputs generated …

Circular sensing networks for guided waves based structural health monitoring

T Wandowski, PH Malinowski… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, results of damage localization performed for four sensing network
configurations are compared. Process of damage localization is based on guided waves …

A survey of scrutinizing delaminated composites via various categories of sensing apparatus

K Askaripour, A Zak - Journal of Composites Science, 2019 - mdpi.com
Scrutinizing delaminated composites is extensively conducted based on measurements of
various types of nondestructive sensing apparatus, classified herein as systems of …