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Li, Tianzhi (author), Chen, Jian (author), Yuan, Shenfang (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Sbarufatti, Claudio (author), Cadini, Francesco (author)Fatigue damage prognosis always requires a degradation model describing the damage evolution with time; thus, the prognostic performance highly depends on the selection of such a model. The best model should probably be case specific, calling for the fusion of multiple degradation models for a robust prognosis. In this context, this paper...journal article 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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Galiana, Shankar (author), Moradi, M. (author), Wierach, Peter (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)Acousto-ultrasonic composite transducers (AUCTs), comprising piezoceramic materials in a reinforced polymeric matrix, show promise for structural health monitoring in composite structures. Challenges arise when integrating AUCTs onto highly loaded thermoplastic composites, especially low-surface-energy materials like polyaryletherketone...journal article 2024
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Moradi, M. (author), Gul, F.C. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)Developing comprehensive health indicators (HIs) for composite structures encompassing various damage types is challenging due to the stochastic nature of damage accumulation and uncertain events (like impact) during operation. This complexity is amplified when striving for HIs independent of historical data. This paper introduces an AI...journal article 2024
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Moradi, M. (author), Chiachío, Juan (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)Composite structures are highly valued for their strength-to-weight ratio, durability, and versatility, making them ideal for a variety of applications, including aerospace, automotive, and infrastructure. However, potential damage scenarios like impact, fatigue, and corrosion can lead to premature failure and pose a threat to safety. This...conference paper 2023
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Xiao, Y. (author), Rans, C.D. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)Embedding fiber optic sensors (FOSs) within parts for strain measurement is attracting widespread interest due to its great potential in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM). This work proposes a novel method of embedding FOSs using capillaries within solid structures and investigates fiber positions and orientation uncertainties...journal article 2023
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Gul, F.C. (author), Moradi, M. (author), Benedictus, R. (author), HADJRIA, RAFIK (author), LUGOVTSOVA, YEVGENIYA (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)Under in-plane compressive load conditions, the growth of a delamination initially induced by an impact can be followed by a fast growth after a threshold level, which leads to a catastrophic failure in composite structures. To avoid reaching this critical level, it is essential to uncover the delamination size and growth pattern in real time....conference paper 2023
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Moradi, M. (author), Gul, F.C. (author), Chiachío, Juan (author), Benedictus, R. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)A health indicator (HI) serves as an intermediary link between structural health monitoring (SHM) data and prognostic models, and an efficient HI should meet prognostic criteria, i.e., monotonicity, trendability, and prognosability. However, designing a proper HI for composite structures is a challenging task due to the complex damage...conference paper 2023
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Galiana, Shankar (author), Moradi, M. (author), Wierach, Peter (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)Acousto-ultrasonic composite transducers (AUCT), which are made of piezoceramic materials embedded in a reinforced polymeric matrix, are promising for the health monitoring of composite structures. However, when they are integrated into highly loaded thermoplastic composite structures, ensuring proper joining properties is a challenge. The...conference paper 2023
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Ferreira Motta, Roberto (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Yutaka Shiino, Marcos (author), Odila Hilario Cioffi, Maria (author), Jacobus Cornelis Voorwald, Herman (author)After half a century of developing fatigue delamination prediction models, where accuracy seems more important than physical understanding, this research aims to merge both aspects. To that aim, strain energy release (SER) within the fatigue load cycle was studied using acoustic emission. The correlation between the measured strain energy...journal article 2023
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Khoshmanesh, S. (author), Watson, S.J. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)In this paper, a new indicator to localize fatigue damage in a fibre glass composite structure, i.e. spar cap to shear web thick adhesive joint of a wind turbine blade, is presented. This indicator is based on the effect of damping on the phase of the mode shapes of the structure. When fatigue damage occurs, damping increases in the defective...journal article 2023
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Moradi, M. (author), Broer, Agnes A.R. (author), Chiachío, Juan (author), Benedictus, R. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)Health indicators are indices that act as intermediary links between raw SHM data and prognostic models. An efficient HI should satisfy prognostic requirements such as monotonicity, trendability, and prognosability in such a way that it can be effectively used as an input in a prognostic model for remaining useful life estimation. However,...conference paper 2023
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Falcetelli, F. (author), Cristiani, D.L.M. (author), Yue, N. (author), Sbarufatti, Claudio (author), Sante, Raffaella Di (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors (DOFS) show several inherent benefits with respect to conventional strain-sensing technologies and represent a key technology for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). Despite the solid motivation behind DOFS-based SHM systems, their implementation for real-time structural assessment is still unsatisfactory...conference paper 2023
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An SHM Data-Driven Methodology for the Remaining Useful Life Prognosis of Aeronautical SubcomponentsGalanopoulos, Georgios (author), Eleftheroglou, N. (author), Milanoski, Dimitrios (author), Broer, Agnes A.R. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Loutas, Theodoros (author)Prognosis of the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of a structure from Structural Health Monitoring data is the ultimate level in the SHM hierarchy. Reliable prognostics are key to a Condition Based Maintenance paradigm for aerospace systems and structures. In the present work, we propose a methodology for RUL prognosis of generic aeronautical...conference paper 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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Galanopoulos, Georgios (author), Eleftheroglou, N. (author), Milanoski, Dimitrios (author), Broer, Agnes A.R. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Loutas, Theodoros (author)We present a generic methodology for developing a Health Indicator out of strain-based Structural Health Monitoring data suitable for implementation in prognostic tasks. For this purpose, an in-house test campaign is launched. Single-stringered composite panels are subjected to compression-compression fatigue with the strains being monitored...journal article 2023
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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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Galanopoulos, Georgios (author), Fytsilis, Efthimios (author), Yue, N. (author), Broer, Agnes A.R. (author), Milanoski, Dimitrios (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Loutas, Theodoros (author)In this paper we execute a complex test campaign to develop a novel methodology for the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) estimation of complex multi-stiffened composite aeronautical panels utilizing Machine Learning models trained with Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) data from hierarchically simpler elements, i.e., single-stiffened panels....journal article 2023
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Falcetelli, F. (author), Yue, N. (author), Rossi, Leonardo (author), Bolognini, Gabriele (author), Bastianini, Filippo (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Di Sante, Raffaella (author)Optical fiber sensors (OFSs) represent an efficient sensing solution in various structural health monitoring (SHM) applications. However, a well-defined methodology is still missing to quantify their damage detection performance, preventing their certification and full deployment in SHM. In a recent study, the authors proposed an experimental...journal article 2023
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Moradi, M. (author), Broer, Agnes A.R. (author), Chiachío, Juan (author), Benedictus, R. (author), Loutas, Theodoros H. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)A health indicator (HI) is a valuable index demonstrating the health level of an engineering system or structure, which is a direct intermediate connection between raw signals collected by structural health monitoring (SHM) methods and prognostic models for remaining useful life estimation. An appropriate HI should conform to prognostic...journal article 2023