A review of some advanced sensors used for health diagnosis of civil engineering structures

S Das, P Saha - Measurement, 2018 - Elsevier
The developments in structural health monitoring techniques have led to the invention of
various sensors that can be effective damage indicator. Due to environmental or …

MEMS acoustic emission sensors

D Ozevin - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a review of state-of-the-art micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS)
acoustic emission (AE) sensors. MEMS AE sensors are designed to detect active defects in …

Piezoelectric MEMS acoustic emission sensors

M Kabir, H Kazari, D Ozevin - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, piezoelectric MEMS (piezo-MEMS) sensors are designed and characterized
for detecting elastic waves released by active flaws, known as acoustic emission (AE). The …

Towards a better understanding of the CMUTs potential for SHM applications

P Butaud, P Le Moal, G Bourbon, V Placet… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2020 - Elsevier
The ability of capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUTs) to design broadband
sensors for structural health monitoring (SHM) is studied through both multi-frequency and …

MEMS sensor fusion: Acoustic emission and strain

H Saboonchi, D Ozevin, M Kabir - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract In this paper, Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) based device
accommodating acoustic emission (AE) and strain sensors is presented for damage …

Multi-frequency MEMS acoustic emission sensor

TM Khan, R Taha, T Zhang, D Ozevin - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, a multi-frequency MEMS acoustic emission (AE) sensor is designed,
characterized, and tested. The sensor includes sixteen individual resonators tuned in the …

Enhancement of the transmission of piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer with an isolation trench

M Wang, Y Zhou, A Randles - Journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (pMUT) with an isolation trench
between cells was proposed to improve the output pressure. A 2-D finite-element model was …

Acoustic emission‐based analysis of bond behavior of corroded reinforcement in existing concrete structures

AA Abouhussien, AAA Hassan - Structural Control and Health …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This experimental study exploits acoustic emission (AE) monitoring to assess the bond
behavior of corroded bars in reinforced concrete prism samples under pull‐out tests. The …

Theoretical and simulation studies on designing a phase-reversal-based broadband CMUT with flat passband and improved noise rejections for SHM

W Lu, S Zhang, R Wang, B Xu, M Yilmaz… - IEEE Sensors …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the past two decades, capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) have
been greatly explored for applications in structural health monitoring (SHM); however …

Evaluation of damage progression in concrete structures due to reinforcing steel corrosion using acoustic emission monitoring

AA Abouhussien, AAA Hassan - Journal of civil structural health monitoring, 2015 - Springer
Acoustic emission (AE) monitoring was employed to detect and identify the extent of
degradation resulting from reinforcing steel corrosion in concrete structures. Reinforced …