Active health monitoring of an aircraft wing with embedded piezoelectric sensor/actuator network: I. Defect detection, localization and growth monitoring

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1208-1217

  Zhao, Xiaoliang ^a   Gao, Huidong ^b   Zhang, Guangfan ^a   Ayhan, Bulent ^a   Yan, Fei ^b   Kwan, Chiman ^a   Rose, Joseph L ^b  

^a INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION INC   (United States)

^b The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORROSION; CRACK PROPAGATION; DEFECTS; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; INSPECTION; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; SENSORS; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ALUMINUM WING; LARGE AREA INSPECTION; PIEZOELECTRIC (PZT) DISCS; SIMULATED CRACKS;

WINGS;

EID: 34547395399     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/16/4/032     Document Type: Article

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