[HTML][HTML] Advancements in fiber-reinforced polymer composite materials damage detection methods: Towards achieving energy-efficient SHM systems

O Ahmed, X Wang, MV Tran, MZ Ismadi - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The application of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites is continuously increasing due
to their superior mechanical properties and the associated weight advantage. However, they …

[HTML][HTML] Review of conventional and advanced non-destructive testing techniques for detection and characterization of small-scale defects

MI Silva, E Malitckii, TG Santos, P Vilaça - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Inspection reliability of small-scale defects, targeting dimensions below 100 µm, is crucial for
structural safety of critical components in high-value applications. Early defects are often …

Recyclable high-performance glass-fiber/epoxy composites with UV-shielding and intrinsic damage self-reporting properties

H Gong, J Wu, Z Zhao, Z Guo, L Gao, B Zhang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Predicting the barely visible damage on high-performance glass-fiber-reinforced composites
(GFRCs) is of vital importance, as it can mitigate catastrophic material failure, and hence …

Microwave nondestructive testing for defect detection in composites based on K-means clustering algorithm

NHMM Shrifan, GN Jawad, NAM Isa, MF Akbar - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Composite such as Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) is increasingly used as
insulation in many industrial applications such as the steel pipelines in the oil and gas …

Visualization of defects in CFRP-reinforced steel structures using improved eddy current pulsed thermography

J Xie, C Xu, C Wu, L Gao, G Chen, G Li… - Automation in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) has been increasingly utilized to repair
damaged steel structures, and inspection of the resulted CFRP-reinforced steel structures is …

Automated leakage detection method of pipeline networks under complicated backgrounds by combining infrared thermography and Faster R-CNN technique

J Xie, Y Zhang, Z He, P Liu, Y Qin, Z Wang… - Process Safety and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Leakage detection is essential to process safety and loss prevention of pipeline networks.
As one of the attractive methods for detecting leakages in single pipelines, infrared …

Defect imaging in carbon fiber composites by acoustic shearography

L Zhang, ZW Tham, YF Chen, CY Tan, F Cui… - … Science and Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites are increasingly used in aerospace,
automobile, marine and power industries due to its good mechanical strength and low …

A global interactive attention-based lightweight denoising network for locating internal defects of CFRP laminates

B Yang, Y Zhang, S Wang, W Xu, M Xiao, Y He… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) has become one of the main structural materials for
aerospace vehicles. However, some internal defects are prone to occur and have potential …

Review of microwave techniques used in the manufacture and fault detection of aircraft composites

Z Li, P Wang, A Haigh, C Soutis… - The Aeronautical Journal, 2021 - cambridge.org
Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic radiation commonly used for telecommunications,
navigation and food processing. More recently microwave technologies have found …

Maximal overlap discrete wavelet-packet transform aided microwave nondestructive testing

NHMM Shrifan, MF Akbar, NAM Isa - NDT & E International, 2021 - Elsevier
The capability of microwave signals to penetrate inside composites and interact with the
inner structure makes them a very attractive candidate for composite inspection. Various …