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Rajabzadeh, Aydin (author)
Compared to metals, composite materials offer higher stiffness, more resilience to corrosion, have lighter weights, and their mechanical properties can be tailored by their layup configuration. Despite these features, composite materials are susceptible to a diversity of damages, including matrix cracks, delamination, and fibre breakage. If...
doctoral thesis 2020
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Eleftheroglou, N. (author)
Prognostics is an emerging field of research that enables the real-time health assessment of an engineering system and the prediction of its future state based on up-to-date information. This field integrates various scientific disciplines including physics/mechanics, computational statistics and probabilistic modeling, machine learning and...
doctoral thesis 2020
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Ochôa, Pedro (author), Groves, R.M. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
A reliable damage diagnostic by ultrasonic guided wave (GW) based structural health monitoring (SHM) can only be achieved if the physical interactions between wave propagation, the SHM system and environmental factors are fully understood. The purpose of this research was to gain knowledge about the effects of high-amplitude low-frequency...
journal article 2020
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Liu, X. (author), Markine, V.L. (author)
This paper presents the development of a multi-body system (MBS) vehicle-crossing model and its application in the structural health monitoring (SHM) of railway crossings. The vehicle and track configurations in the model were adjusted to best match the real-life situation. By using the measurement results obtained from an instrumented...
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Ewald, Vincentius (author), Groves, R.M. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
The concept of structural health monitoring has been introduced to ensure structural integrity during the design lifetime of a structure. The main objectives of structural health monitoring are to detect, locate, quantify, and predict any damage that occurs during this lifetime of the structure so that effective and efficient maintenance and...
journal article 2020
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Ochôa, Pedro (author)
The adoption of composites as aircraft primary structural material has created a real need for a new aircraft maintenance philosophy to enable almost real-time structural condition assessment. It is thus crucial to develop structural health monitoring (SHM) systems capable of performing damage diagnostic and remaining useful life prognostic. At...
doctoral thesis 2019
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Saeedifar, M. (author), Mansvelder, Jasmijn (author), Mohammadi, R. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)
This study aims to use the passive and active acoustic-based health monitoring methods for impact damage assessment of composite structures. To this aim, a Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) composite plate was fabricated and subjected to a simulated low-velocity impact by performing repeated quasi-static indentation tests where a loading...
journal article 2019
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Lourens, E. (author), Fallais, D.J.M. (author)
Kalman-type filters for coupled input-state estimation can be used to estimate the full-field dynamic response of structures from only a limited set of vibration measurements. The use of these coupled estimators allows for response prediction to be performed in the absence of any knowledge of both the dynamic evolution and spatial...
journal article 2019
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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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Nokhbatolfoghahai, A. (author), Navazi, Hossein M. (author), Groves, R.M. (author)
To perform active structural health monitoring, guided Lamb waves for damage detection have recently gained extensive attention. Many algorithms are used for damage detection with guided waves and among them, the delay-and-sum method is the most commonly used algorithm because of its robustness and simplicity. However, delay-and-sum images...
journal article 2019
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Klerk, W.J. (author), Schweckendiek, T. (author), den Heijer, Frank (author), Kok, M. (author)
One of the most rapidly emerging measures in infrastructure asset management is Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), which aims at reducing uncertainty in structural performance by using monitoring equipment. As earthen flood defence structures typically have large strength uncertainties, such techniques can be particularly promising. However,...
journal article 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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Ochôa, Pedro (author), Groves, R.M. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
The successful utilization of guided wave-based structural health monitoring (SHM) for detailed quantitative diagnostic of damage in composite aircraft primary structures depends on the excitation frequency, geometry, and positioning of the piezoelectric transducers. This study proposes a novel methodology to consistently define those parameters...
journal article 2019
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Ochôa, Pedro (author), Villegas, I.F. (author), Groves, R.M. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
This article presents research about the propagation of ultrasonic guided waves in ultrasonically welded thermoplastic composite joints. The goal of the study was to understand the effect of weld manufacturing defects on guided wave transmission across the joint. Triangular energy-directors integrated into the lower composite adherends...
journal article 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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Rajabzadeh, Aydin (author), Heusdens, R. (author), Hendriks, R.C. (author), Groves, R.M. (author)
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to characterise barely visible transverse matrix cracks in composite structures using fibre Bragg grating (FBG) optical sensors. Matrix cracks are one of the most prevalent types of damage in composite structures, and detecting them in the internal layers of composites has remained a challenge. In...
journal article 2019
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Eleftheroglou, N. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Loutas, Theodoros (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)
A novel framework to fuse structural health monitoring (SHM) data from different in-situ monitoring techniques is proposed aiming to develop a hyper-feature towards more effective prognostics. A state-of-the-art Non-Homogenous Hidden Semi Markov Model (NHHSMM) is utilized to model the damage accumulation of composite structures, subjected to...
journal article 2018
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Qin, Xiaoqiong (author), Zhang, Lu (author), Yang, M. (author), Luo, Heng (author), Liao, Mingsheng (author), Ding, Xiaoli (author)
Arch bridges are important transportation infrastructures widely distributed in China, but they are prone to structural defects due to aging without routine inspection and maintenance. Therefore, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of these bridges is urgently needed by civil engineers to effectively reduce the risk of bridge damage or...
journal article 2018
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