<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>One major challenge confronting the aerospace industry today is to develop a reliable and universal Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system allowing for direct aircraft inspections and maintenance costs reduction. SHM based on guided Lamb waves is an approach capable of addressing this issue and satisfying all the associated requirements. This paper presents an approach to monitoring damage growth in composite aerospace structures and early damage detection. The main component of the system is a piezoelectric transducers (PZT) network integrated with composites. This work describes sensors’ integration with the structure. In particular, some issues concerning the mathematical algorithms giving information about damage from the impact damage presence and its growth are discussed.</p></abstract>

One major challenge confronting the aerospace industry today is to develop a reliable and universal Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system allowing for direct aircraft inspections and maintenance costs reduction. SHM based on guided Lamb waves is an approach capable of addressing this issue and satisfying all the associated requirements. This paper presents an approach to monitoring damage growth in composite aerospace structures and early damage detection. The main component of the system is a piezoelectric transducers (PZT) network integrated with composites. This work describes sensors’ integration with the structure. In particular, some issues concerning the mathematical algorithms giving information about damage from the impact damage presence and its growth are discussed.

Composite Aerospace Structure Monitoring with use of Integrated Sensors

Air Force Institute of Technology, ul. Ks. Boleslawa 6, 01-494 Warsaw, Poland

University of Warmia and Mazury, ul. Oczapowskiego 2, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland

Fatigue of Aircraft Structures

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One major challenge confronting the aerospace industry today is to develop a reliable and universal Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system allowing for...

Composite Aerospace Structure Monitoring with use of Integrated Sensors

Published Online: Jun 30, 2016

Page range: 12 - 17

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fas-2015-0002

Keywords
structural health monitoring, PZT sensor network, barely visible impact damage

© 2015 Krzysztof Dragan et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Composite Aerospace Structure Monitoring with use of Integrated Sensors

Published Online: Jun 30, 2016

Page range: 12 - 17

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fas-2015-0002

Keywordsstructural health monitoring, PZT sensor network, barely visible impact damage

© 2015 Krzysztof Dragan et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
structural health monitoring, PZT sensor network, barely visible impact damage