A structural health monitoring system for laminated composites

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 6 B, Issue , 2001, Pages 2013-2021

  Díaz Valdés, Sergio H ^a   Soutis, Costas ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Composite laminates; Damage characterization; Delamination detection; FEM; Health monitoring; Lamb waves; NDE

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTELLIGENT STRUCTURES; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; DESIGN; LAMINATING; PIEZOELECTRICITY; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; SURFACE WAVES; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); WAVE PROPAGATION;

DELAMINATION DETECTION; FORCED MECHANICAL RESONANCE; LOW FREQUENCY LAMB WAVES; RESONANCE SPECTRUM METHOD; SINE-SWEEP EXCITATION; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM; SURFACE MOUNTED PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; WAVE GENERATION; MECHANICAL RESONANCE; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; RESONANCE SPECTRUM; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEMS; SURFACE-MOUNTED; SWEEP EXCITATION; THICK COMPOSITES; WAVE GENERATION AND PROPAGATION;

CONDITION MONITORING; LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 0035791697     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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