A complete surveillance strategy for wind turbines requires both the condition monitoring
(CM) of their mechanical components and the structural health monitoring (SHM) of their …

Barely visible impact damage is one of the most common types of damage in carbon-fibre-
reinforced polymer composite structures. This article investigates the potential of using …

The integrity of safety-critical structural composites can be enhanced by the use of
innovative ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation techniques. Among the various existing …

Ultrasonic guided waves have proven to be an effective and efficient method for damage
detection and quantification in various plate-like structures. In honeycomb sandwich …

Gaussian mixture model–based structural health monitoring methods have been studied in
recent years to improve the reliability of damage monitoring under environmental and …

Ultrasonic guided waves offer a convenient and practical approach to structural health
monitoring and non-destructive evaluation, thanks to some distinct advantages. Guided …

Key requirements to boost the applicability of Ultrasonic systems for in-situ, real-time
operations are low hardware complexity and low power consumption. These features are …

Neural networks are commonly recognized tools for the classification of multidimensional
data obtained in structural health monitoring (SHM) systems. Their configuration for a given …

Multi-layered composites are frequently used in many applications as constructional
materials. Such materials represent a difficult inspection task for some traditional techniques …

This study is focused on the development of a finite difference model to simulate Lamb wave
propagation through Single Lap Joints (SLJs). The main advantage of this model is the …