Nondestructive testing and evaluation techniques of defects in fiber-reinforced polymer composites: A review

J Chen, Z Yu, H Jin - Frontiers in Materials, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Fiber-reinforced polymer composites have excellent mechanical properties and outstanding
development potential and are cost-effective. They have increasingly been used in …

[HTML][HTML] Full scale promoted convolution neural network for intelligent terahertz 3D characterization of GFRP delamination

Y Xu, H Zhou, Y Cui, X Wang, DS Citrin, L Zhang… - Composites Part B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Damage detection of composite materials is crucial to monitor the component condition over
the life cycle for the maintenance management and possible replacement. Delamination …

Terahertz superresolution stratigraphic characterization of multilayered structures using sparse deconvolution

J Dong, X Wu, A Locquet… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terahertz sparse deconvolution based on an iterative shrinkage algorithm is presented in
this study to characterize multilayered structures. With an upsampling approach, sparse …

Nondestructive damage evaluation of composites based on terahertz and X-ray image fusion

J Wang, T Xu, L Zhang, T Chang, J Zhang, S Yan… - Ndt & E …, 2022 - Elsevier
Inspection of thin and multi-depth delamination and foreign inclusion defects inside glass
fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) composites is a challenge for traditional non-destructive …

Terahertz nondestructive quantitative characterization for layer thickness based on sparse representation method

Y Xu, X Wang, L Zhang, R Yan, X Chen - Ndt & E International, 2021 - Elsevier
Terahertz (THz) time-domain detection has emerged as a promising tool for nondestructive
testing due to its superior detection accuracy and sensitivity for both interfaces and internal …

Double Gaussian mixture model-based terahertz wave dispersion compensation method using convex optimization technique

Y Xu, X Fang, S Fan, L Zhang, R Yan, X Chen - Mechanical Systems and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Terahertz (THz) time-domain pulse detection technique has recently attracted great attention
in the nondestructive testing (NDT) field due to its superior detection accuracy and sensitivity …

Terahertz metamaterial using reconfigurable H-shaped resonator with tunable perfect absorption characteristic

Y Liu, YS Lin - Materials Today Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
A design of H-shaped tunable metamaterial absorber (HTMA) is proposed to show multi-
resonance and tunable perfect absorption characteristics. It consists of a reconfigurable H …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting the stacking sequence of E-glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) epoxy composite using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) system

DW Park, GH Oh, HS Kim - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
A terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) system was used for measuring and
predicting stacking sequence of laminated composites. The THz wave's penetration …

Visualization of subsurface damage in woven carbon fiber-reinforced composites using polarization-sensitive terahertz imaging

J Dong, P Pomarède, L Chehami, A Locquet… - NDT & E …, 2018 - Elsevier
Polarization-sensitive terahertz imaging is applied to characterize subsurface damage in
woven carbon fiber-reinforced composite laminates in this study. Terahertz subsurface …

[HTML][HTML] Real-time terahertz characterization for composite delamination using a lightweight CPU adaptive network

Y Xu, X Wang, H Zhou, Y Hou, B Wen, L Zhang… - Composites Part B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Delamination defects, as common damages occurring in fiber reinforced composite
laminates, are often difficult to be detected due to their invisibility and concealment …