Loosening of threaded fasteners can cause preload decline, induce bolt fatigue fracture, and
severely compromise the reliability of mechanical products. Loosening detection is an …

Guided waves (GW) and acoustic emission (AE)-based structural health monitoring (SHM)
have widespread applications in structures, as the monitoring of an entire structure is …

Fiber Bragg grating (FBG)-based acoustic emission (AE) detection and monitoring is
considered as a potential and emerging technology for structural health monitoring (SHM) …

Structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques are required to evaluate the reliability of
aging heat-resistant structures. To build a method of high-temperature in situ damage …

The need for measurable data from physical assets to actively feed a living Digital Twin (DT)
is paramount. The requirements and needs that the gathered data should fulfill in order to be …

A major challenge in structural health monitoring (SHM) is the efficient handling of big data,
namely of high-dimensional datasets, when damage detection under environmental …

Highly sensitive ultrasonic fiber-optic Bragg gratings (FBGs) have been used as acoustic
emission (AE) sensors in the non-destructive inspection (NDI) for analyzing damage …

The drinking water mains, mostly buried underground and stay there for decades, require
proper maintenance to prevent failures. Among different kinds of material, polyvinyl chloride …

In this paper, the use of a phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry (ϕ-OTDR)
sensor for the detection of the Lamb waves excited by a piezoelectric transducer in an …

Recent advancements in fiber optic methods have enabled their use for guided wave
sensing. It opens up new possibilities for Structural Health Monitoring. The aim of this paper …