Structural health monitoring of composite T-joints for assessing the integrity of damage zones

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6167, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kesavan, A ^a   Deivasigamani, M ^a   John, S ^a   Herszberg, I ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Australian Computer Society Inc   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artificial Neural Networks; Composites; Delamination; Structural Health Monitoring

Indexed keywords

CONDITION MONITORING; DELAMINATION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

DAMAGE RELATIVITY ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; T-JOINTS;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 33745868011     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.655967     Document Type: Conference Paper

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