Lamb Wave Generation with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5056, Issue , 2003, Pages 111-122

  Giurgiutiu, Victor ^a  

^a University of South Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

Active sensors; Aging aircraft; Cracks; Damage; Diagnostics; E M impedance; Embedded NDE; Embedded ultrasonics structural health monitoring; Lamb waves; Piezoelectric; Prognostics; PWAS

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; AGING OF MATERIALS; AIRCRAFT PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; CONDITION MONITORING; CRACKS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; SENSORS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION;

HEALTH MONITORING; PIEZOELECTRIC SENSORS;

PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

EID: 0242636202     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.483492     Document Type: Conference Paper

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