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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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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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Galanopoulos, 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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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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Milanoski, Dimitrios (author), Galanopoulos, Georgios (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Loutas, Theodoros (author)
A digital twin representative of a typical composite stiffened panel is utilized to monitor skin-to-stringer disbonds. A validated finite element model of the composite panel estimates the longitudinal strains of the pristine state, at the exact location where integrated fiber Bragg grating sensors are permanently installed. Experimental...
conference paper 2023
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Moradi, M. (author), Komninos, P. (author), Benedictus, R. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)
Recently, companies all over the world have been focusing on the improvement of autonomous health management systems in order to enhance performance and reduce downtime costs. To achieve this, the remaining useful life predictions have been given remarkable attention. These predictions depend on the proper designing process and the quality of...
conference paper 2022
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Igea, Felipe (author), Chatzis, Manolis N. (author), Cicirello, A. (author)
Structural Health Monitoring uses data collected from sensors placed on structures to determine their operating condition and whether maintenance is required. Often, optimal sensor placement strategies are used to find the optimal locations for the identification of their modal properties, structural parameters and/or abnormal behaviours under...
conference paper 2021
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Galanopoulos, Georgios (author), Milanoski, Dimitrios (author), Broer, Agnes A.R. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Loutas, Theodoros (author)
In order to reduce aircraft downtimes Condition-Based-Maintenance (CBM) is a topic gaining increased popularity in recent years. However, to apply such maintenance policies reliable health monitoring techniques should be implemented. Two state of the art monitoring techniques, namely Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBG) and Acoustic Emission (AE) are...
conference paper 2021
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Cabboi, A. (author), Gentile, Carmelo (author), Zonno, Giacomo (author)
A radar equipment was used to measure the deflection response of bridge stay-cables induced by ambient and traffic excitation. After a concise description of the radar equipment and a summary of advantages and potential issues of the microwave technology, the paper focuses on the experimental tests performed on all stay-cables of the curved...
conference paper 2021
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Rajabzadeh, Aydin (author), Hendriks, R.C. (author), Heusdens, R. (author), Groves, R.M. (author)
Fibre Bragg grating sensors have gained a lot of attention in damage detection and strain measurement applications in the past few decades. These applications include matrix crack detection and delamination tip monitoring in composite structures, crack detection in concrete and civil engineering structures and etc. The damage localisation...
conference paper 2019
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Thöns, Sebastian (author), Klerk, W.J. (author), Köhler, Jochen (author)
This paper provides an overview, insights, results and a classification related to development and analyses of case studies within the scientific networking project COST Action TU1402 on the value of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) information. With an outline of the framework and approaches, a procedure on how to quantify the value of SHM...
conference paper 2019
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Fazzi, L. (author), Rajabzadeh, Aydin (author), Milazzo, Alberto (author), Groves, R.M. (author)
Loads applied transversely on the external surface of waveguides change their circular cross-sectional geometry generating birefringence. Due to this effect the reflected spectrum of a Fibre Bragg grating (FBG) undergoes a splitting of the single peak of the Bragg wavelength. In this work, we employed the Transfer Matrix Method (TMM) for x-...
conference paper 2019
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Ewald, Vincentius (author), Groves, R.M. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
In our previous work, we demonstrated how to use inductive bias to infuse a convolutional neural network (CNN) with domain knowledge from fatigue analysis for aircraft visual NDE. We extend this concept to SHM and therefore in this paper, we present a novel framework called DeepSHM which involves data augmentation of captured sensor signals...
conference paper 2019
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Nazeer, N. (author), Groves, R.M. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
Over the years, many shape sensing methods have been developed with technologies including optical fibre, PZT and fringe projection. Among them, optical fibres have gained a lot of attention due to their unobtrusive nature when either surface mounted or embedded in the structure. Optical fibre Bragg gratings (FBG) are currently employed for...
conference paper 2019
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Groves, R.M. (author)
Fibre optic sensors can measure a range of physics and chemical parameters. Some of the more common fibre optic sensors are the fibre Bragg grating (FBG), the long period grating (LPG), the Fabry-Pérot Interferometer (FPI) and various distributed fibre optic sensors based on optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR) and optical frequency domain...
conference paper 2017
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Lourens, E. (author), Fallais, D.J.M. (author)
For the monitoring of large structures where the loading is typically characterized by large uncertainties in temporal and/or spatial evolution, algorithms capable of estimating a set of response driving equivalent forces are strongly desired. In this context, several Kalman-type coupled input-state and coupled input-state-parameter filters...
conference paper 2017
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Rajabzadeh, Aydin (author), Groves, R.M. (author), Hendriks, R.C. (author), Heusdens, R. (author)
In this paper the behaviour of fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensors under non-uniform strain distributions was analysed. Using the fundamental matrix approach, the length of the FBG sensor was discretised, with each segment undergoing different strain values. FBG sensors that are embedded inside composites, also undergo such non-uniform strain...
conference paper 2017
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