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A Review of Structural Health Monitoring Techniques as Applied to Composite Structures.

Amafabia, D.M., Montalvão, D., David-West, O. and Haritos, G., 2018. A Review of Structural Health Monitoring Techniques as Applied to Composite Structures. SDHM Structural Durability and Health Monitoring, 11 (2), 91-147.

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DOI: doi:10.3970/sdhm.2017.011.091

Abstract

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is the process of collecting, interpreting, and analysing data from structures in order to determine its health status and the remaining life span. Composite materials have been extensively use in recent years in several industries with the aim at reducing the total weight of structures while improving their mechanical properties. However, composite materials are prone to develop damage when subjected to low to medium impacts (ie 1 – 10 m/s and 11 – 30 m/s respectively). Hence, the need to use SHM techniques to detect damage at the incipient initiation in composite materials is of high importance. Despite the availability of several SHM methods for the damage identification in composite structures, no single technique has proven suitable for all circumstances. Therefore, this paper offers some updated guidelines for the users of composites on some of the recent advances in SHM applied to composite structures; also, most of the studies reported in the literature seem to have concentrated on the flat composite plates and reinforced with synthetic fibre. There are relatively fewer stories on other structural configurations such as single or double curve structures and hybridised composites reinforced with natural and synthetic fibres as regards SHM.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:1930-2991
Uncontrolled Keywords:SHM; composite structures; damage identification; failure mechanisms; low impact techniques.
Group:Faculty of Science & Technology
ID Code:30355
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:15 Feb 2018 15:14
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 14:09

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