With the breadth of applications and analysis performed over the last few decades, it would
not be an exaggeration to call piezoelectric materials “the top of the crop” of smart materials …

This review article is focused on the analysis of the state of the art of sensors for guided
ultrasonic waves for the detection and localization of impacts for structural health monitoring …

Sensors are devices that output signals for sensing physical phenomena and are widely
used in all aspects of our social production activities. The continuous recording of physical …

Piezoelectric materials are a class of materials that can generate an electric charge when
subjected to mechanical stress, or vice versa. These materials have a wide range of …

Additive manufactured structures are replacing the corresponding ones realized with
classical manufacturing technique. As for metallic structures, 3D printed components are …

Piezoelectric, piezoresistive, and optical fiber sensors have attracted considerable attention
in structural health monitoring (SHM) applications for strain/temperature measurements in …

Flexible piezoelectric sensors have been spotlighted as an essential human–machine
interface (HMI) by obtaining high‐quality data from omnipresent biomechanical inputs …

Corrosion is a major safety and economic concern to various industries. In this paper, a
novel ultrasonic guided wave tomography (GWT) system based on self-designed …

In a previous paper, we had evidenced that the memory effect of the resistance of embedded
quantum resistive strain sensors (sQRS) could be used to quantitatively assess the damage …

The aviation industry faces the challenge of offering aircraft that are lighter, more
economical, and safer. One of the solutions is to increase the use of composites. For these …