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Aaij, E. (author)Lightweight composite sandwich structures are particularly susceptible to impact damage. Barely Visible Impact Damage (BVID) is known to affect the short and long term load bearing capacities of composite structures. Active acoustic Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems have the potential to detect such damages before they lead to...master thesis 2016
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Vargalui, A. (author)Acoustic Emission (AE) based structural health monitoring systems have the potential to assess the state of metallic / composite structures and detect damage in real time as it grows. This is done by monitoring the Lamb waves that occur due to the release of energy and the specific boundary conditions. Environmental and Operational Conditions ...master thesis 2015
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Stottelaar, R.A. (author)Recent advances in nanocomposites based on conductive carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have led to investigations of using CNT networks as strain sensors. When CNTs are incorporated into a polymer matrix to form electrical networks, the developed conductive nanocomposite becomes sensitive to strain, thus a linear correlation can be found between strain...master thesis 2015
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Boon, M.J.G.N. (author)The present study focuses on understanding the effect of load and temperature on Acoustic Emission (AE) signal propagation in an Aluminium 2024-T3 panel. In addition, the ability of an AE system to locate damage under these operational and environmental conditions was evaluated. The work was performed in two stages. In stage one, the wave group...master thesis 2014