A magnetostrictive phased array sensor using a nickel comb patch for guided Lamb wave-based damage detection

Author(s):  
Byungseok Yoo ◽  
Darryll J. Pines
Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 860
Author(s):  
Mikhail V. Golub ◽  
Alisa N. Shpak ◽  
Inka Mueller ◽  
Sergey I. Fomenko ◽  
Claus-Peter Fritzen

Since stringers are often applied in engineering constructions to improve thin-walled structures’ strength, methods for damage detection at the joints between the stringer and the thin-walled structure are necessary. A 2D mathematical model was employed to simulate Lamb wave excitation and sensing via rectangular piezoelectric-wafer active transducers mounted on the surface of an elastic plate with rectangular surface-bonded obstacles (stiffeners) with interface defects. The results of a 2D simulation using the finite element method and the semi-analytical hybrid approach were validated experimentally using laser Doppler vibrometry for fully bonded and semi-debonded rectangular obstacles. A numerical analysis of fundamental Lamb wave scattering via rectangular stiffeners in different bonding states is presented. Two kinds of interfacial defects between the stiffener and the plate are considered: the partial degradation of the adhesive at the interface and an open crack. Damage indices calculated using the data obtained from a sensor are analyzed numerically. The choice of an input impulse function applied at the piezoelectric actuator is discussed from the perspective of the development of guided-wave-based structural health monitoring techniques for damage detection.


2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yingtao Liu ◽  
Masoud Yekani Fard ◽  
Seung B. Kim ◽  
Aditi Chattopadhyay ◽  
Derek Doyle

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Sergio V. Farias ◽  
Osamu Saotome ◽  
Haroldo F. Campos Velho ◽  
Elcio H. Shiguemori

A critical task of structural health monitoring is damage detection and localization. Lamb wave propagation methods have been successfully applied for damage identification in plate-like structures. However, Lamb wave processing is still a challenging task due to its multimodal and dispersive characteristics. To address this issue, data-driven machine learning approaches as artificial neural network (ANN) have been proposed. However, the effectiveness of ANN can be improved based on its architecture and the learning strategy employed to train it. The present paper proposes a Multiple Particle Collision Algorithm (MPCA) to design an optimum ANN architecture to detect and locate damages in plate-like structures. For the first time in the literature, the MPCA is applied to find damages in plate-like structures. The present work uses one piezoelectric transducer to generate Lamb wave signals on an aluminum plate structure and a linear array of four transducers to capture the scattered signals. The continuous wavelet transform (CWT) processes the captured signals to estimate the time-of-flight (ToF) that is the ANN inputs. The ANN output is the damage spatial coordinates. In addition to MPCA optimization, this paper uses a quantitative entropy-based criterion to find the best mother wavelet and the scale values. The presented experimental results show that MPCA is capable of finding a simple ANN architecture with good generalization performance in the proposed damage localization application. The proposed method is compared with the 1-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-CNN). A discussion about the advantages and limitations of the proposed method is presented.


2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 210407
Author(s):  
Leonardo Gunawan ◽  
Muhammad Hamzah Farrasamulya ◽  
Andi Kuswoyo ◽  
Tatacipta Dirgantara

This paper presents the development process of a laboratory-scale Lamb wave-based structural health monitoring (SHM) system for laminated composite plates. Piezoelectric patches are used in pairs as actuator/sensor to evaluate the time of flight (TOF), i.e. the time difference between the transmitted/received signals of a damaged plate and those of a healthy plate. The damage detection scheme is enabled by means of evaluating the TOF from at least three actuator/receiver pairs. In this work, experiments were performed on two GFRP plates, one healthy and the other one with artificial delamination. Nine piezoelectric transducers were mounted on each plate and the detection of the delamination location was demonstrated, using 4 pairs and 20 pairs of actuators/sensors. The combinations of fewer and more actuators/sensor pairs both provided a damage location that was in good agreement with the artificial damage location. The developed SHM system using simple and affordable equipment is suitable for supporting fundamental studies on damage detection, such as the development of an algorithm for location detection using the optimum number of actuator/sensor pairs.


2013 ◽  
Vol 753-755 ◽  
pp. 2343-2346
Author(s):  
Ya Jie Sun ◽  
Yong Hong Zhang ◽  
Hui Qiang Tang ◽  
Cheng Shan Qian ◽  
Shen Fang Yuan

Phased array theroy can controll the Lamb wave beem steering in certain range by adding the time delay to the signals. Phased array theory is used to identify the damge in the structure. One dimensional PZT array is restricted in monitoring distance. Two parellel PZT sensors arrays are utilized to monitor the CFPR structure to extend the monitoring distance and to improve the precision of the damage locatilization. The experiment is done on the CFPR structure by using two parellel PZT arrays to detect the damage in the structure. The results of the experiment is shown on the mapped image. Gray-scale in the mapped image from dark to light corresponds to the signal amplitude from low to high. The highlight of the mapped image is the damage location in the structure. The monitoring results in the CFPR structure by two parellel PZT arrays is accurate and identical.


2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 334-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenhua Tian ◽  
Lingyu Yu ◽  
Xiaoyi Sun ◽  
Bin Lin

Fiber Bragg gratings are known being immune to electromagnetic interference and emerging as Lamb wave sensors for structural health monitoring of plate-like structures. However, their application for damage localization in large areas has been limited by their direction-dependent sensor factor. This article addresses such a challenge and presents a robust damage localization method for fiber Bragg grating Lamb wave sensing through the implementation of adaptive phased array algorithms. A compact linear fiber Bragg grating phased array is configured by uniformly distributing the fiber Bragg grating sensors along a straight line and axially in parallel to each other. The Lamb wave imaging is then performed by phased array algorithms without weighting factors (conventional delay-and-sum) and with adaptive weighting factors (minimum variance). The properties of both imaging algorithms, as well as the effects of fiber Bragg grating’s direction-dependent sensor factor, are characterized, analyzed, and compared in details. The results show that this compact fiber Bragg grating array can precisely locate damage in plates, while the comparisons show that the minimum variance method has a better imaging resolution than that of the delay-and-sum method and is barely affected by fiber Bragg grating’s direction-dependent sensor factor. Laboratory tests are also performed with a four–fiber Bragg grating array to detect simulated defects at different directions. Both delay-and-sum and minimum variance methods can successfully locate defects at different positions, and their results are consistent with analytical predictions.


Measurement ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 110364
Author(s):  
Muping Hu ◽  
Jian He ◽  
Chen Zhou ◽  
Zeyu Shu ◽  
Wenping Yang

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liping Huang ◽  
Junmin Du ◽  
Feiyu Chen ◽  
Liang Zeng

Time reversal (TR) concept is widely used for Lamb wave-based damage detection. However, the time reversal process (TRP) faces the challenge that it requires two actuating-sensing steps and requires the extraction of re-emitted and reconstructed waveforms. In this study, the effects of the two extracted components on the performance of TRP are studied experimentally. The results show that the two time intervals, in which the waveforms are extracted, have great influence on the accuracy of damage detection of the time reversal method (TRM). What is more, it requires a large number of experiments to determine these two time intervals. Therefore, this paper proposed an efficient time reversal method (ETRM). Firstly, a broadband excitation is applied to obtain response at a wide range of frequencies, and ridge reconstruction based on inverse short-time Fourier transform is applied to extract desired mode components from the broadband response. Subsequently, deconvolution is used to extract narrow-band reconstructed signal. In this method, the reconstructed signal can be easily obtained without determining the two time intervals. Besides, the reconstructed signals related to a series of different excitations could be obtained through only one actuating-sensing step. Finally, the effectiveness of the ETRM for damage detection in composite laminates is verified through experiments.


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