Special issue: instrumentation, health monitoring and automated damage assessment

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Gary C. Hart
Information ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Yusuf A. Bhagat

Sensors continue to pervade our surroundings in undiminished ways [...]


2007 ◽  
Vol 347 ◽  
pp. 69-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Giurgiutiu

This paper presents the perspective of the Structural Mechanics program of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research on the damage assessment of structures. It is found that damage assessment of structures plays a very important role in assuring the safety and operational readiness of Air Force fleet. The current fleet has many aging aircraft, which poses a considerable challenge for the operators and maintainers. The nondestructive evaluation technology is rather mature and able to detect damage with considerable reliability during the periodic maintenance inspections. The emerging structural health monitoring methodology has great potential, because it will use on-board damage detection sensors and systems, will be able to offer on-demand structural health bulletins. Considerable fundamental and applied research is still needed to enable the development, implementation, and dissemination of structural health monitoring technology.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Kralovec ◽  
Martin Schagerl

Structural health monitoring (SHM) is the continuous on-board monitoring of a structure’s condition during operation by integrated systems of sensors. SHM is believed to have the potential to increase the safety of the structure while reducing its deadweight and downtime. Numerous SHM methods exist that allow the observation and assessment of different damages of different kinds of structures. Recently data fusion on different levels has been getting attention for joint damage evaluation by different SHM methods to achieve increased assessment accuracy and reliability. However, little attention is given to the question of which SHM methods are promising to combine. The current article addresses this issue by demonstrating the theoretical capabilities of a number of prominent SHM methods by comparing their fundamental physical models to the actual effects of damage on metal and composite structures. Furthermore, an overview of the state-of-the-art damage assessment concepts for different levels of SHM is given. As a result, dynamic SHM methods using ultrasonic waves and vibrations appear to be very powerful but suffer from their sensitivity to environmental influences. Combining such dynamic methods with static strain-based or conductivity-based methods and with additional sensors for environmental entities might yield a robust multi-sensor SHM approach. For demonstration, a potent system of sensors is defined and a possible joint data evaluation scheme for a multi-sensor SHM approach is presented.


2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 755-756
Author(s):  
Hamid Ghasemi ◽  
Steve Chase ◽  
P.N. Balaguru ◽  
Farhad Ansari

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