Piezoelectric transducer-based structural health monitoring for aircraft applications

X Qing, W Li, Y Wang, H Sun - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
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 …

A review of the piezoelectric electromechanical impedance based structural health monitoring technique for engineering structures

WS Na, J Baek - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
The birth of smart materials such as piezoelectric (PZT) transducers has aided in
revolutionizing the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) based on non-destructive …

An experimental study on the effect of temperature on piezoelectric sensors for impedance-based structural health monitoring

FG Baptista, DE Budoya, VAD De Almeida, JAC Ulson - Sensors, 2014 - mdpi.com
The electromechanical impedance (EMI) technique is considered to be one of the most
promising methods for developing structural health monitoring (SHM) systems. This …

Electromechanical impedance of piezoelectric transducers for monitoring metallic and non-metallic structures: A review of wired, wireless and energy-harvesting …

VGM Annamdas, MA Radhika - Journal of Intelligent …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Electromechanical impedance–based structural health monitoring method had attracted
several researchers in the recent past for aerospace, civil, mechanical, timber and biological …

Impedance-based pre-stress monitoring of rock bolts using a piezoceramic-based smart washer—A feasibility study

B Wang, L Huo, D Chen, W Li, G Song - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
Pre-stress degradation or looseness of rock bolts in mining or tunnel engineering threatens
the stability and reliability of the structures. In this paper, an innovative piezoelectric device …

Application of electromechanical impedance technique in the monitoring of sigma phase embrittlement in duplex stainless steel

DDS Silva, JMB Sobrinho, CR Souto… - Materials Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Duplex stainless steels (DSS) have a structure composed of austenite and ferrite in
approximately equal volume fractions which provides an excellent integration between …

Grinding process monitoring based on electromechanical impedance measurements

M Marchi, FG Baptista, PR de Aguiar… - Measurement Science …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Grinding is considered one of the last processes in precision parts manufacturing, which
makes it indispensable to have a reliable monitoring system to evaluate workpiece surface …

Toward smart aerospace structures: Design of a piezoelectric sensor and its analog interface for flaw detection

H Boukabache, C Escriba, JY Fourniols - Sensors, 2014 - mdpi.com
Structural health monitoring using noninvasive methods is one of the major challenges that
aerospace manufacturers face in this decade. Our work in this field focuses on the …

Towards a novel modular architecture for CERN radiation monitoring

H Boukabache, M Pangallo, G Ducos… - Radiation protection …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has the legal obligation
to protect the public and the people working on its premises from any unjustified exposure to …

Demonstrating the non-similarity in local holdups of spouted beds obtained by CT with scale-up methodology based on dimensionless groups

N Ali, T Al-Juwaya, M Al-Dahhan - Chemical Engineering Research and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The common scale-up methodology for gas–solid spouted bed that has been reported in the
literature is based on matching dimensionless groups. This methodology has been validated …