Journal
STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
Volume 18, Issue 2, Pages 454-465Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1475921718757937
Keywords
Composite structures; tensile; impact; omnidirectional buckypaper sensor; electrical resistance
Funding
- Liaoning Provincial University Talents Support Program [LR2015048]
- Shenyang International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Project [F16-212-6-00]
- Shenyang Science Project [17-208-9-00]
- National Natural Science Fund [11602150, U1733123]
- Aeronautical Science Foundation [2016ZA54004]
- Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province [20170540695]
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A novel, omnidirectional, nanomaterial-based sensor technology which can provide wide area damage detection of composite structures was proposed in this work. The behaviors of the buckypaper sensors subjected to both tensile and low-velocity impact were investigated. The experimental results showed that the rectangle buckypaper sensor has a large range of sensing coefficients from 21.40 to 35.83 at different directions under tensile. However, the circular buckypaper sensor has a steady sensing coefficient of about 155.63. Thus, the circular buckypaper sensor as a kind of omnidirectional sensor was chosen to monitor the impact damage. The low-velocity impact damage of composite structures is characterized by the gauge factor of omnidirectional buckypaper sensors and the results of C-scanning. Omnidirectional buckypaper sensors' electrical resistance increases with repeated impact loading; composite structure elastic deformation and damage evolution can be identified from resistance change. Experiment results show that structure monitoring based on the omnidirectional buckypaper sensor not only can detect small barely visible impact damage flaws and the damage evaluation of composite structures subjected to impact but also can determine the location of low-velocity impact damage through the analysis of results. Through comparison with C-scan, the results have preliminarily demonstrated that the omnidirectional carbon nanotubes' buckypaper sensor can serve as an efficient tool for sensing the evolution of impact damage as well as serve structural health monitoring of composite structures.
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