Impact damage is one of the major concerns in maintenance of aircraft structures built from composite materials. Damage detection in composite materials can be divided into active and passive approaches. The active approach is usually based on various non-destructive techniques utilizing actuators and/or receivers. In contrast passive approaches do not involve any actuators; receivers are used to 'sense and/or hear' any perturbations caused by possible hidden damage. Often strain data are used to localize impacts and estimate their energy. The assumption is that damage occurs above well-defined energy of impacts. The paper illustrates one active and one passive method recently developed for impact damage detection. The first method, based on guided ultrasonic waves, utilizes 3-D laser vibrometry and does not require any signal processing. Simple laser scans, revealing the change in Lamb wave response amplitudes, have been used to locate delamination and estimate its severity in a composite plate. In contrast, the second method does not require any sophisticated instrumentation but relies on advanced signal processing. An array of piezoceramic sensors has been to detect strain waves transmitted from an impact applied to the composite aircraft structure. The modified multilateration procedure with Genetic Algorithms has been used to locate impact position.


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    Title :

    Health monitoring of aerospace composite structures - Active and passive approach


    Contributors:
    Staszewski, W.J. (author) / Mahzan, S. (author) / Traynor, R. (author)


    Publication date :

    2009


    Size :

    8 Seiten, 8 Bilder, 2 Tabellen, 24 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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