Recent progress on distributed structural health monitoring research at NUAA

This study introduces recent research advances on the structural health monitoring (SHM) at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA). Distributed SHM technology for large-scale engineering structures is discussed. First, a hybrid wing box health monitoring evaluation system is presented. This evaluation system is developed to verify the piezoelectric sensor array-based active Lamb wave diagnostic method and the fiber Bragg grating sensor-based structural strain monitoring method. Second, distributed health monitoring technology based on the multi-agent system (MAS) technology is discussed. This research includes the individual agent design, the MAS-based SHM system architecture design, and three important aspects in designing the MAS-based SHM system. An evaluation case is presented in detail to show the advantages of the MAS-based SHM system. Finally, the study illustrates the motivation of the agents realized by a wireless sensor network. The developed wireless sensor nodes are also described.