The advantages of these new techniques are significant and allow controlled systems and installations to exceed normal requirements for safety, reliability, and usage availability. These techniques can be applied during the early design and development stages and can be verified and validated during accelerated structural tests. Benefits are: extended service cycles with reduced maintenance duration; replacement of scheduled periodical maintenance by condition based maintenance; monitored systems exhibit a longer operating life and permit full use of the material life; monitored vehicles attain a higher resale value and thus represent a direct advantage for the operating entity; eventually, completely monitored systems may safely operate with reduced or even without conventional safety margins to permit an optimized design reducing overall material volume and weight and thus supporting conservation of valuable energy. To successfully develop and apply such structural health monitoring technologies, it is required that the technical and scientific progress in various areas of expertise are vigorously investigated and exploited. New measurement techniques, based on traditional NDT methods, will be required to provide information and data about material characteristics, material alterations and material discontinuities. The efficiency of the entire system largely depends on progress in microprocessor and data storage technologies. The longevity and reliability of such sensor platforms is currently an unsolved problem and will require significant progress in electronic packaging.


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    Title :

    Structural health monitoring of components for aerospace and wind energy systems


    Additional title:

    Zustandsüberwachung von Komponenten für Systeme in der Luftfahrt und der Windenergie




    Publication date :

    2007


    Size :

    6 Seiten, 5 Bilder, 7 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Storage medium


    Language :

    English




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