Xing, KeJia: Experiments and simulation in structural health monitoring systems using the E/M impedance and cross transfer function methods. 2015
Content
- Table of Contents
- Nomenclature
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Motivation & the Concept of Structural Health Monitoring
- 1.2 Classification of Structural Health Monitoring
- 1.3 Objectives and Outline of the Work
- 2 Fundamentals
- 2.1 Piezoelectric Elements
- 2.2 E/M Impedance Method (EMI Method)
- 2.2.1 Mathematical modelling of EMI
- 2.2.2 EMI method in experiments
- 2.2.3 Damage metrics and feature extraction
- 2.3 Wave Propagation
- 2.4 Spectral Element Method (SEM)
- 2.5 Phased Arrays
- 3 Cross Transfer Function Method for the Phased Array
- 3.1 The Theory of the Cross Transfer Function Method
- 3.2 Nonuniform Phased Array with Dolph-Chebyshev Distribution
- 3.3 Applications of the Cross Transfer Function Method
- 3.3.1 Beamforming simulation with SEM
- 3.3.2 Experiment: - the cross transfer function method in a uniform phased array
- 3.3.3 Experiment - cross transfer function method in nonuniform phased array with Dolph-Chebyshev Distribution
- 3.3.4 Experiment: the cross transfer function method in a uniform T-array
- 4 Self-diagnosis of Piezoelectric Elements
- 5 Investigation of the Sensing Ability of Bonded Piezoelectric Elements
- 6 EMI Method Applied in Monitoring Fatigue Crack
- 7 Conclusions and Discussion
- References