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Khoshmanesh, S. (author)Developing an effective blade structural health monitoring (SHM) system is important for the wind energy industry. This has challenged the scientific communities for years, and still, the problem has not been solved. This research aims to find a solution to this problem and provide a basis for further research in this field. The failure rate and...doctoral thesis 2024
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Khoshmanesh, S. (author), Watson, S.J. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)Wind turbine blades carry the risk of impact damage during transportation, installation, and operation. Such impacts can cause levels of damage that can propagate throughout the structure compromising performance and safety. In this study, the effect of impact damage on fatigue damage propagation in test specimens representative of a spar cap...journal article 2024
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Galanopoulos, Georgios (author), Milanoski, Dimitrios (author), Eleftheroglou, N. (author), Broer, Agnes A.R. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Loutas, Theodoros (author)An increasing interest for Structural Health Monitoring has emerged in the last decades. Acoustic emission (AE) is one of the most popular and widely studied methodologies employed for monitoring, due to its capabilities of detecting, locating and capturing the evolution of damage. Most literature so far, has employed AE for characterizing...journal article 2023
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Alimirzaei, Sajad (author), Ahmadi Najafabadi, Mehdi (author), Bani Mohammad Ali, Amir (author), Pahlavan, Lotfollah (author)The aim of this research is to investigate the failure mechanisms of the filament-wound composite tubes under axial compressional loading by using an acoustic emission approach. First, the mechanical properties of ±45°C composite tubes were obtained experimentally. Then, failure due to the buckling phenomenon and crashworthiness...journal article 2023
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Pan, Tanbo (author), Zheng, Yonglai (author), Zhou, Y. (author), Luo, Wenbin (author), Xu, Xubing (author), Hou, Chenyu (author), Zhou, Yujue (author)This study presents a damage pattern recognition approach for corroded steel beams strengthened by CFRP anchorage system based on acoustic emission clustering analysis. The proposed method includes four steps: acoustic emission signal acquisition, feature extraction, clustering analysis, and damage pattern recognition. Four corroded beams...journal article 2023
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Alimirzaei, Sajad (author), Ahmadi Najafabadi, Mehdi (author), Nikbakht, Ali (author), Pahlavan, Lotfollah (author)By analyzing the failure mechanisms, crashworthiness characteristics of FW composite tubes subjected to two modes of progressive damage and catastrophic failure are investigated using acoustic emission technique and numerical method. The AE signals of ±45° composite tubes were classified using hierarchical and wavelet transform methods, and...journal article 2023
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Saeedifar, M. (author), Saleh, M. (author), Krairi, Anouar (author), Teixeira De Freitas, S. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)The present study proposes a comprehensive integrity assessment approach for a full-scale adhesively-bonded bi-material joint for maritime applications. The joint represents a cross-section of the bond-line connection of a ship with a steel hull and a sandwich composite superstructure. The full-scale joint consists of a sandwich composite...journal article 2023
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Naderloo, M. (author), Veltmeijer, A.V. (author), Jansen, J.D. (author), Barnhoorn, A. (author)Recent laboratory and field studies suggest that temporal variations in injection patterns (e.g., cyclic injection) might trigger less seismicity than constant monotonic injection. This study presents results from uniaxial compressive experiments performed on Red Felser sandstone samples providing new information on the effect of stress...journal article 2023
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Pan, Tanbo (author), Zheng, Yonglai (author), Zhou, Y. (author), Wu, Zhuorui (author), Zhou, Yujue (author)Externally bonded (EB) carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) is widely used in structural strengthening and retrofitting. Premature debonding of the FRP severely limits the efficiency of CFRP utilization. The application of CRRP anchorage system offers a solution to the debonding problem. However, the understanding of damage mode identification...conference paper 2023
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Li, X. (author)Fatigue damage of composite laminates has attracted considerable attention from research community and industry, in view that laminated structures are inevitable to suffer from fatigue loading during their service life. It is rather complicated to understand and explain, what governs the initiation, accumulation, interaction (synergy or...doctoral thesis 2022
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Tomić, Nataša Z. (author), Saeedifar, M. (author), Saleh, M. (author), Marinković, Aleksandar (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Teixeira De Freitas, S. (author)The aim of this research was to investigate the self-healing potential of damaged Al joints when bonded using novel eco-epoxide adhesives derived from tannic acid (TA). Two eco-epoxy components based on TA, (A) glycidyl ether and (B) glycidyl phosphate ester of TA, were produced. The effect of the eco-epoxy components on the self-healing...journal article 2022
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Li, X. (author), Benedictus, R. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)Ply-block size and stress level effect on accumulation of transverse cracks and delamination are investigated during early fatigue life of CFRP laminates. Tension-tension fatigue tests under different stress levels were performed for two cross-ply configurations. Edge observation with digital cameras, digital image correlation and acoustic...journal article 2022
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Huijer, A.J. (author), Zhang, X. (author), Kassapoglou, C. (author), Pahlavan, Lotfollah (author)Marine propellers made of fibre-reinforced composites have demonstrated the potential to outperform metallic propellers in terms of efficiency and under-water noise radiation. For full realisation of this potential in a tailored design process with realistic constraints, accurate information on the hydrodynamic loads acting on composite...journal article 2022
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Huijer, A.J. (author), Kassapoglou, C. (author), Pahlavan, Lotfollah (author)The recording and processing of acoustic emissions can be used to identify and localise damage mechanisms occurring in engineering structures. In plate-like structures, acoustic emissions propagate through the structure as guided waves. With a measurement location away from the source location, dispersion effects in the guided wave distort...conference paper 2022
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Damage mechanism characterization of ±35° and ±55° FW composite tubes using acoustic emission methodAlimirzaei, Sajad (author), Najafabadi, Mehdi Ahmadi (author), Nikbakht, Ali (author), Pahlavan, Lotfollah (author)The focus of this study is to investigate the mechanical properties, of ±35° and ±55° filament wound (FW) composite tubes under axial compression loading using the acoustic emission technique. For this purpose, material failure, crashworthiness characteristics, and the effect of each mechanism on the energy absorption capacity were studied...journal article 2022
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Zheng, Yonglai (author), Wen, Yuan (author), Pan, Tanbo (author), Liu, Yongcheng (author), Zhou, Yujue (author), Li, Ruizhi (author), Zhou, Y. (author)This study investigated the relationship between the acoustic emission (AE) signals parameter sequence fractal characteristics and the damage evolution information of corroded reinforced concrete (RC) beams under four-point bending. Strength deterioration behavior and AE data can be obtained by coupling the four-point bending test and the AE...journal article 2022
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Christensen, Christian Overgaard (author), Zhang, F. (author), Zarate Garnica, G.I. (author), Lantsoght, E.O.L. (author), Goltermann, Per (author), Schmidt, Jacob Wittrup (author)Advanced monitoring methods are required to identify stop criteria in proof-load tests. In this study, the combined methodology of two-dimensional digital image correlation and acoustic emission is investigated for its applicability for future implementation in field tests. The two monitoring systems are deemed to provide valuable insight...journal article 2022
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Li, X. (author), Saeedifar, M. (author), Benedictus, R. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)This paper investigates the loading rate effect on both mechanical properties and damage accumulation process of [0°2/90°4]S carbon fiber-polymer laminates under tensile loading. In-situ edge observations, Acoustic Emission and Digital Image Correlation techniques were utilized simultaneously to monitor the state of damage in real time. Results...journal article 2021
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Tomić, Nataša Z. (author), Saleh, M. (author), Saeedifar, M. (author), Marinković, Aleksandar (author), Teixeira De Freitas, S. (author)The aim of this paper is to study the self-healing capability of fractured Al joints bonded with novel eco-epoxide adhesives synthesized from a bio-renewable raw material (tannic acid – TA). Two synthesized eco-epoxy components based on TA, (A) glycidyl ether and (B) glycidyl phosphate ester of TA, were used as a replacement for the toxic epoxy...journal article 2021
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Mohammadi, R. (author), Najafabadi, Mehdi Ahmadi (author), Saghafi, Hamed (author), Saeedifar, M. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)The present study is focused on the characterization of the fatigue damage features in carbon/epoxy laminates under mode-II loading conditions. To this aim, a sinusoidal cyclic load was applied to the End-Notched Flexural (ENF) specimens and the fatigue behavior of specimens was investigated. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) was used to...journal article 2021