Time-domain analyses and correlations of lamb wave signals for damage detection in a composite panel of multiple stiffeners

Journal of Composite Materials

Volumn 43, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 3211-3230

  Lu, Ye ^a   Ye, Lin ^a,b   Wang, Dong ^a   Zhong, Zhaorui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Composite structures; Damage identification.; Lamb waves; Sensor networks; Wave attenuation

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; COMPLEX COMPOSITES; COMPOSITE PANELS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DAMAGE IDENTIFICATION; DAMAGED STRUCTURES; INVERSE ALGORITHM; LAMB WAVE; LAMB WAVE MODE; LAMB WAVES; PIEZOELECTRIC SENSOR NETWORKS; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; THICKNESS HOLE; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVE SIGNAL;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ALGORITHMS; CARBON FIBERS; COMPLEXATION; DATA COMPRESSION; SENSOR NETWORKS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

DAMAGE DETECTION;

EID: 74349114074     PISSN: 00219983     EISSN: 1530793X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021998309345332     Document Type: Article

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