Maximum-likelihood estimation of damage location in guided-wave structural health monitoring

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 467, Issue 2133, 2011, Pages 2575-2596

  Flynn, Eric B ^a   Todd, Michael D ^a   Wilcox, Paul D ^b   Drinkwater, Bruce W ^b   Croxford, Anthony J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood estimation; Non destructive evaluation; Structural health monitoring; Ultrasonic guided waves

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONITORING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

COMPLICATED STRUCTURES; DAMAGE LOCATION; LOCALIZATION METHOD; LOCALIZATION PERFORMANCE; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE; NON DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION; OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; RAYLEIGH; SCATTERED WAVES; SPARSE ARRAYS; STATISTICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL PERFORMANCE; STRUCTURAL HEALTH; STRUCTURE COMPLEXITY; TEST CASE; ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVES; WAVE SCATTERING;

STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

EID: 80052649290     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2011.0095     Document Type: Conference Paper

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