Detection of impacts in composite materials using piezoceramic sensors and neural networks

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3329, Issue , 1998, Pages 491-497

  Maseras Gutierrez, M A ^a   Staszewski, Wieslaw J ^a   Found, Mike S ^a   Worden, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Damage detection; Impact detection; Neural networks; Piezoceramic sensors

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE BRIDGES; DAMAGE DETECTION; INTEGRATED CONTROL; INTELLIGENT STRUCTURES; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS;

BEFORE AND AFTER; COMPOSITE PANELS; IMPACT DETECTION; IMPACT EXPERIMENTS; IMPACT LOCATIONS; PIEZOCERAMIC SENSORS; PRE-PROCESSING; STRAIN RESPONSES;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0001134530     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.316918     Document Type: Conference Paper

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