Journal
METALS
Volume 8, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/met8090683
Keywords
steel bolted joint; mechanical degradation; tensile loading; wave propagation; structural health monitoring
Funding
- National Science Centre, Poland [2015/19/B/ST8/00779]
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The structural integrity of steel bolted joints may be compromised due to excessive loading. Therefore, condition assessment and the detection of potential defects before they cause a failure have become a major issue. The paper is focused on the condition monitoring of a bolted lap joint subjected to progressive degradation in a tensile test. The inspection used Lamb waves propagated through the overlap area. Wave propagation signals were registered automatically by means of piezoelectric transducers. Two damage indices were defined based on linear and nonlinear features of Lamb waves. The use of a network of piezoelectric transducers and the analysis of multiple signals instead of single ones was proved to effectively monitor the state of the bolted joint. The obtained results showed that the method enabled to detect selected stages of the degradation process and to characterize the reduction of the contact area between the plates in the overlap area.
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