Unsupervised Consensus Clustering of Acoustic Emission Time-Series for Robust Damage Sequence Estimation in Composites

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3297-3307

  Ramasso, Emmanuel ^a   Placet, Vincent ^b   Boubakar, Mohamed Lamine ^b  

^a Franche Comté Electronics Mechanics Thermics Optics Science and Technology ^*  (France)

^b FEMTO ST INSTITUTE   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission (AE); clustering fusion; composite materials; feature selection; number of cluster estimation; structural health monitoring (SHM); uncertainty quantification; unevenly spaced time series.

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DAMAGE DETECTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BOOTSTRAP ENSEMBLES; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED; CLUSTERING ENSEMBLE; CONSENSUS CLUSTERING; GUSTAFSON-KESSEL ALGORITHM; POLYGONAL REPRESENTATION; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; UNSUPERVISED PATTERNS;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING;

EID: 84960092018     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2015.2450354     Document Type: Article

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