Real-time health monitoring of a thin composite beam using a passive structural neural system

G. R. Kirikera; V. Shinde; M. J. Schulz; A. Ghoshal; M. J. Sundaresan; J. W. Lee

doi:10.1117/12.658674

15 March 2006 Real-time health monitoring of a thin composite beam using a passive structural neural system

G. R. Kirikera, V. Shinde, M. J. Schulz, A. Ghoshal, M. J. Sundaresan, J. W. Lee

Proceedings Volume 6177, Health Monitoring and Smart Nondestructive Evaluation of Structural and Biological Systems V; 61770H (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.658674
Event: Nondestructive Evaluation for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics, 2006, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

A small size prototype of a Structural Neural System (SNS) was tested in real time for damage detection in a laboratory setting and the results are presented in this paper. The SNS is a passive online structural health monitoring (SHM) system that can detect small propagating damages in real time before the overall failure of the structure is realized. The passive SHM method is based on the concept of detecting acoustic emissions (AE) due to damage propagating. Propagating cracks were identified near the vicinity of a sensor in a composite specimen during fatigue testing. In the composite specimen, in additions to a propagating crack, fretting occurred because of slipping contact between the load points and the composite specimen. The SNS was able to predict the location of damage due to crack propagation and also detect signals from fretting simultaneously in real time.

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G. R. Kirikera, V. Shinde, M. J. Schulz, A. Ghoshal, M. J. Sundaresan, and J. W. Lee "Real-time health monitoring of a thin composite beam using a passive structural neural system", Proc. SPIE 6177, Health Monitoring and Smart Nondestructive Evaluation of Structural and Biological Systems V, 61770H (15 March 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.658674

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