Journal
JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT MATERIAL SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES
Volume 26, Issue 12, Pages 1477-1490Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1045389X14544140
Keywords
Damage localization; piezoelectric rosettes; structural health monitoring; non-destructive evaluation; guided ultrasonic waves; Lamb waves; temperature effect; macro-fiber composite transducers
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Funding
- Foundation for Polish Science under the research WELCOME project [2010-3/2]
- US National Science Foundation [1028365]
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An approach based on macro-fiber composite transducer rosettes and ultrasonic guided waves is proposed for damage location in plate-like structures. By using the directivity behaviour of the three macro-fiber composite sensors in each rosette, the direction of an incoming wave generated by scattering from damage can be estimated without knowledge of the wave velocity in the structure. Two rosettes suffice to identify the location of a scatterer in a planar structure. The technique does not have the drawbacks of time-of-flight triangulation, requiring information on wave velocity that complicates the damage location when testing anisotropic materials, tapered sections or any structure under temperature fluctuations. The effectiveness of the piezoelectric rosette method is tested experimentally on an aluminium plate with a simulated damage subjected to temperature variation.
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