
Structural Health Monitoring/Management (SHM) in Aerospace Structures
- 1st Edition - April 3, 2024
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Editor: Fuh-Gwo Yuan
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 4 7 6 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 1 4 9 - 7
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Request a sales quoteStructural Health Monitoring/Management (SHM) in Aerospace Structures provides readers with the spectacular progress that has taken place over the last twenty years with respect to the area of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) Management. The SHM field encompasses transdisciplinary areas, including smart materials, sensors and actuators, damage diagnosis and prognosis, signal and image processing algorithms, wireless intelligent sensing, data fusion, and energy harvesting. This book focuses on how SHM techniques can be applied to aircraft, mechanical and civil engineering structures with particular emphasis on composite materials. This will be a valuable reference resource for R&D managers, materials scientists, and engineers working in the aerospace sector, for researchers and system designers working in industry, and for academia and government research agencies developing new systems for the SHM of aerospace, mechanical, and civil engineering structures.
- Presents new developments in smart materials for sensing and actuation
- Discusses new developments in mechanical metamaterials
- Presents the latest on signal/imaging processing for damage diagnosis
- Explores damage prognosis and integrated vehicle health management (IVHM)
- Covers new developments in machine learning and artificial Intelligence
R&D managers, materials scientists and engineers and researchers working in industry, academia and government research agencies developing new systems for the SHM of aerospace, mechanical and civil engineering structures, as well as SHM system designers.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part One: Implementation of SHM technology in civil aviation
- 1 Overview of SHM in airline maintenance: Challenges and opportunities
- Abstract
- 1.1 What is SHM?
- 1.2 Why SHM?
- 1.3 History of SHM in civil aviation
- 1.4 Technologies/techniques
- 1.5 Variations of SHM
- 1.6 Examples of SHM applications in service
- 1.7 Piece of the puzzle: Technical
- 1.8 Piece of the puzzle: Procedural
- 1.9 Piece of the puzzle: Financial
- 1.10 Piece of the puzzle: Regulatory
- 1.11 Challenges and opportunities
- References
- Part Two: Recent advances in SHM/NDE techniques
- 2 NDE in metal additive manufacturing: Survey
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Metal AM
- 2.3 NDE for metal AM
- 2.4 Applications: Vision and laser scanning-based NDE for AM
- 2.5 Applications: Thermographic NDE for AM
- 2.6 Applications: Ultrasonic NDE for AM
- 2.7 Summary
- References
- 3 Composite sandwich structures: Damage detection and assessment using ultrasonic guided waves
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Nondestructive evaluation
- 3.3 Structural health monitoring
- 3.4 Conclusions
- References
- 4 Recent advances in loads/strain monitoring: A review
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Strain sensors
- 4.3 Detection of local damages
- 4.4 Global detection of damage by strain measurements
- 4.5 Final remarks
- References
- 5 Overview of phase array technology in SHM
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Phased array beamforming in composites
- 5.3 Array characterization
- 5.4 Detecting multiple damages in composites
- 5.5 Conclusions
- References
- 6 Advances in FBG sensor systems for SHM of composite aerospace structures
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Packaging of FBG sensors
- 6.3 Instrumentation for FBG sensors
- 6.4 FBG sensors in advanced optical fibers
- 6.5 Summary
- References
- 7 Ultrasonic wavefield imaging in structural health monitoring: A review
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Noncontact full wavefield imaging systems
- 7.3 Wavefield representations and processing
- 7.4 Imaging conditions
- 7.5 Aerospace applications of noncontact field measurement techniques
- 7.6 Challenges and opportunities
- References
- 8 State-of-the-art in eddy current techniques for damage detection of composite bolted joints
- Abstract
- 8.1 SHM technologies of bolted joints
- 8.2 Eddy current sensing film for hole-edge damage detection in metal bolted joints
- 8.3 Eddy current sensing array for damage detection in CFRP bolted joints
- 8.4 Conclusions and development trends in future
- References
- 9 Self-healing polymers and composites: A review of recent developments
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Extrinsic self-healing of polymeric composites
- 9.3 Intrinsic self-healing for polymeric composites
- 9.4 Applications of self-healing polymers and composites
- 9.5 Conclusions and prospects
- References
- Part Three: Innovative technologies for damage diagnosis and prognosis
- 10 Using optic fibers for ultrasonic damage detection at high temperatures
- Abstract
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Optic fiber sensors for high-temperature ultrasonic sensing
- 10.3 Development of high-temperature PS-FBG ultrasonic sensing techniques
- 10.4 Acoustic emission sensing in high-temperature composites at 1000°C
- 10.5 Laser-ultrasonic visualization at 1000°C
- 10.6 Conclusion
- References
- 11 Flextensional piezoelectric energy harvesting technologies
- Abstract
- 11.1 Introduction to piezoelectric energy harvesting technology
- 11.2 Piezoelectric materials for energy harvesting
- 11.3 Fundamental knowledge of PEHs
- 11.4 Fundamental knowledge of flextensional PEHs
- 11.5 Summary of performance for flextensional PEHs
- 11.6 Applications of “33” mode PM-FPEH
- 11.7 Advanced PEHs with flextensional mechanisms
- 11.8 Summary
- References
- 12 Mechanical metamaterials for wave-based SHM and vibration isolation
- Abstract
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Guided wave focusing via mechanical metamaterial
- 12.3 Superresolution imaging via mechanical metamaterial
- 12.4 Honeycomb beam vibration isolating via mechanical metamaterial
- 12.5 Conclusions
- References
- 13 Identification of composite material properties by elastic wave propagation methods
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 13.1 Destructive methods for material property characterization
- 13.2 Nondestructive methods for material property characterization
- 13.3 Dispersion curves of Lamb waves
- 13.4 Identification of material properties
- 13.5 Conclusions
- References
- 14 Spatiotemporal fractal manifold learning for vibration-based structural health monitoring
- Abstract
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Mathematical preliminary
- 14.3 Materials
- 14.4 Methodology
- 14.5 Experimental results
- 14.6 Conclusion and future works
- References
- 15 Nonlinear autoregressive exogenous method for structural health monitoring using ultrasonic guided waves
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Methodology of damage detection using time series model
- 15.3 Experimental measurement system and captured data
- 15.4 Results
- 15.5 Conclusion
- References
- 16 A tutorial on digital twins for predictive maintenance
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 Overview of digital twins
- 16.3 Elements to construct a digital twin
- 16.4 Numerical example and code explanation
- 16.5 Conclusions
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 3, 2024
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- No. of pages: 550
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443154768
- eBook ISBN: 9780443191497
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Fuh-Gwo Yuan
Professor Yuan is an internationally renowned expert in the field of structural health monitoring, fracture and life prediction of advanced materials and structures, smart materials and structures, and damage tolerance of composite structures. His research is leading to the development of advanced structural health monitoring systems that will fundamentally impact future design and maintenance of large and complex aerospace, mechanical, and civil structures. These systems will reduce maintenance costs and increase asset availability and extend remaining useful life of structures, such as aircraft and bridges, by providing accurate measurement and prediction of damage and degradation at early stages.
He brings more than two decades of experience collaborating with NASA Langley Research Center scientists and engineers to his new role as Langley Professor. His research has played a major role toward the advancement of structural health monitoring systems and the understanding of damage tolerance of composite materials and structures.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, USARead Structural Health Monitoring/Management (SHM) in Aerospace Structures on ScienceDirect