Developing health indicators for composite structures based on a two-stage semi-supervised machine learning model using acoustic emission data

Conference paper (2023)

Authors

M. Moradi Structural Integrity & Composites - Aerospace Engineering
Juan Chiachío University of Granada, Universidad de Granada
D. Zarouchas Structural Integrity & Composites - Aerospace Engineering
Research Group
Structural Integrity & Composites (Aerospace Engineering) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2023 M. Moradi, Juan Chiachío, D. Zarouchas
DOI
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https://doi.org/10.7712/150123.9844.451295
Bayesian Optimization Impact damage Artificial Intelligence (AI) Deep learning (DL) Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) Composite structures Acoustic Emission Fatigue assessment Semi-supervised Learning Fatigue behavior evaluation Dimension Reduction Intelligent health indicator Prognostic and Health Management (PHM) Adaptive standardization
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Published Date

2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Aerospace Engineering

Department

Aerospace Structures & Materials

Research Group

Structural Integrity & Composites

Abstract

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 highlights the importance of monitoring composite structures through structural health monitoring (SHM) and prognostics and health management (PHM) to ensure their safe and reliable operation. SHM provides information on the current state of the structure, while PHM predicts its future behavior and determines necessary maintenance. Health indicators (HIs) play a crucial role in both SHM and PHM, providing information on structural health and behavior, but accurate determination of these indicators can be challenging due to the complexity of material behavior and multiple sources of damage in composite structures. In the present work, a model containing a developed adaptive standardization, a dimension reduction sub-model, a time-independent sub-model, and a time-dependent sub-model is introduced to address this challenge. First, the raw data collected by the acoustic emission technique monitoring composite structures under fatigue loading is processed to provide plenty of statistical features. The extracted features are adaptively standardized according to the available data until the current time. Then, the principal component analysis algorithm is employed to reconstruct a few yet highly informative features out of those statistical features. An artificial neural network is used to regress the principal components to the HI that meets the prognostic criteria. Finally, the last sub-model takes into account the time dependency of HI values during fatigue loading. In comparison to other models, the results show superior performance.