Reliability Analysis of an Ultrasonic Guided Wave Based Structural Health Monitoring System for a Carbon Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastic Torsion-box

Certification is the key step towards the implementation of structural health monitoring (SHM) as part of condition based maintenance programmes of aircraft fleets. That can only be accomplished by demonstration of system performance in multiple scenarios and in a statistically relevant way. This paper describes a fully computational approach...

Full-scale testing of an ultrasonic guided wave based structural health monitoring system for a thermoplastic composite aircraft primary structure

This paper describes the test campaign of an ultrasonic guided wave (GW) based structural health monitoring system (SHM) deployed on a full-scale stiffened panel of a thermoplastic composite horizontal stabilizer torsion box. The diagnostic capabilities of the SHM system were successfully evaluated by testing barely-visible impact damage of...