Structural Health Monitoring with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors
with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors
- 3rd Edition - July 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Author: Victor Giurgiutiu
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 4 4 5 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 8 8 6 - 1
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Structural Health Monitoring with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors, Third Edition provides an authoritative theoretical and experimental guide to this fast-paced, interdisciplinary area with exciting applications across a range of industries. It judiciously combines theory, numerical examples, and experiments providing the background needed to fully understand the physical principles involved in performing structural health monitoring (SHM) with piezoelectric wafer active sensor (PWAS) transducers. The book starts with a detailed yet digestible consolidation of the fundamental theory relating to SHM, covering fracture and failure basics, relevant piezoelectric material properties, vibration modes in different structures, and different wave types, providing the background necessary to understand SHM and apply it to real-world structural challenges. From there the book segues to experimental practice covering several complementary methods of using PWAS transducers for SHM applications, such as propagating guided waves (pitch-catch; pulse-echo; phased-array) and standing guided waves. Numerical examples have been added throughout in support of understanding the underlying theory, and the companion website contains MATLAB code, simulation videos, and other supporting materials. An instructor’s manual is available upon request for teachers using the book in the classroom. Updates to this 3rd edition include sections covering flexural vibration energy of a beam; bulk wave interaction at interfaces; power and energy of Rayleigh waves; group velocity, power, and energy of shear waves; power and energy of Lamb waves; simplified Helmholtz equations solution through gauge condition manipulation; normal mode expansion solution for Lamb waves tuning; guided wave interaction with damage, hybrid global local method; and determination of wave damage interaction coefficients through local FEM analysis with nonreflective boundaries in the frequency domain.
- In-depth coverage of the underlying theory of piezoelectricity, vibration, and wave propagation alongside experimental techniques fostering a well-rounded understanding of this interdisciplinary topic
- Features step-by-step guidance on the use of piezoelectric wafer active sensors to detect and quantify damage in structures, including clear information on how to interpret sensor signal patterns
- Updates to this edition include real-world numerical and modeling examples in each chapter, and the introduction of new topics and techniques such as flexural vibration energy of a beam, Rayleigh waves, Lamb waves, Helmholtz equations, and the hybrid local field method
Primary: Graduate students, postdocs, and researchers in civil engineering and aerospace industry
Secondary: Professional engineers
Preface 1. Introduction to Structural Health Monitoring with Piezoelectric Wafer Sensors 2. Electroactive and Magnetoactive Materials 3. Vibration Fundamentals in Structural Health Monitoring with Piezoelectric Wafer Sensors 4. Vibration of Plates in Structural Health Monitoring with Piezoelectric Wafer Sensors 5. Elastic Waves in Structural Health Monitoring with Piezoelectric Wafer Sensors 6. Guided Waves in Structural Health Monitoring with Piezoelectric Wafer Sensors 7. Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors -- PWAS Transducers 8. Coupling of PWAS Transducers to the Monitored Structure 9. PWAS Resonators 10. Wave Tuning with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors 11. High-Frequency Vibration SHM with PWAS Modal Sensors -- the Electromechanical Impedance Method 12. Wave Propagation SHM with PWAS Transducers 13. In-Situ Phased Arrays with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors 14. Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition for Structural Health Monitoring with PWAS Transducers 15. Case Studies of Multi-method SHM with PWAS Transducers: Damage ID in Experimental Signals References
- Edition: 3
- Latest edition
- Published: July 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Victor Giurgiutiu
Dr. Giurgiutiu is an expert in the field of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). He leads the Laboratory for Active Materials and Smart Structures at the University of South Carolina. He is a regular contributor of papers to leading conferences in the area, received the award Structural Health Monitoring Person of the Year 2003 and is Associate Editor of the international journal, Structural Health Monitoring.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA