In recent years, composite materials have gained popularity in numerous high-tech and engineering applications, owing to their outstanding physico-mechanical properties. They …
The need for global damage detection methods that can be applied in complex structures has led to the development of methods that examine the structural dynamic behavior. The …
The early work on long range guided wave nondestructive testing (NDT) was largely done in industry, and multiple applications were developed before a surge in academic interest …
The world is consuming large amounts of energy in various forms like electric energy and mechanical energy. Since the electrical energy is an important factor for the development of …
BACKGROUND The tight integration of sensing, actuation, and computation that biological systems exhibit to achieve shape and appearance changes (like the cuttlefish and birds in …
Advanced composite materials have gained popularity in high-performance structural designs such as aerospace applications that require lightweight components with superior …
S Zhang, CM Li, W Ye - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2021 - Elsevier
Lamb wave-based SHM technology for damage detection and localization in plate-like structures has typically relied on post-processing of ultrasonic guided waves. Traditionally …
Lamb waves are guided waves that propagate in thin plate or shell structures. There has been a clear increase of interest in using Lamb waves for identifying structural damage …
S Gee, B Johnson, AL Smith - Journal of membrane science, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, nanofiber membranes were fabricated using electrospinning to induce piezoelectric properties. Optimization of the piezoelectric properties was achieved using the …