scholarly journals A Brief Review on Structural Health Monitoring Sensor Technology in Civil and Aviation Technology Applications

Author(s):  
Ahmad Hamdan Ariffin ◽  
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Zaleha Mohamad ◽  
Shahruddin Mahzan ◽  
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The Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system is a method for evaluating and monitoring the integrity of the structure. It has been widely used in various engineering sectors, such as in aerospace, civil and energy sectors due to its ability to react to structural changes on an online basis or in real-time monitoring. The SHM system was able to evolve and work in a variety of structures or components due to the rapid development of sensor technology. It is believed that SHM will become an important tool in various industries for structural monitoring in future years. The paper presents a summary of the latest SHM technology in civil and aviation technology applications as well as the challenges in cost analysis and certification issues for the implementation of SHM.

Author(s):  
Ahmad Hamdan Ariffin ◽  
◽  
Zaleha Mohamad ◽  
Shahruddin Mahzan ◽  
◽  
...  

The Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system is a method for evaluating and monitoring the integrity of the structure. It has been widely used in various engineering sectors, such as in aerospace, civil and energy sectors due to its ability to react to structural changes on an online basis or in real-time monitoring. The SHM system was able to evolve and work in a variety of structures or components due to the rapid development of sensor technology. It is believed that SHM will become an important tool in various industries for structural monitoring in future years. The paper presents a summary of the latest SHM technology in civil and aviation technology applications as well as the challenges in cost analysis and certification issues for the implementation of SHM.


Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 4312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunzhu Chen ◽  
Xingwei Xue

With the rapid development of the world’s transportation infrastructure, many long-span bridges were constructed in recent years, especially in China. However, these bridges are easily subjected to various damages due to dynamic loads (such as wind-, earthquake-, and vehicle-induced vibration) or environmental factors (such as corrosion). Therefore, structural health monitoring (SHM) is vital to guarantee the safety of bridges in their service lives. With its wide frequency response range, fast response, simple preparation process, ease of processing, low cost, and other advantages, the piezoelectric transducer is commonly employed for the SHM of bridges. This paper summarizes the application of piezoelectric materials for the SHM of bridges, including the monitoring of the concrete strength, bolt looseness, steel corrosion, and grouting density. For each problem, the application of piezoelectric materials in different research methods is described. The related data processing methods for four types of bridge detection are briefly summarized, and the principles of each method in practical application are listed. Finally, issues to be studied when using piezoelectric materials for monitoring are discussed, and future application prospects and development directions are presented.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1716
Author(s):  
David Agis ◽  
Francesc Pozo

In this paper, we evaluate the performance of the so-called parametric t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (P-t-SNE), comparing it to the performance of the t-SNE, the non-parametric version. The methodology used in this study is introduced for the detection and classification of structural changes in the field of structural health monitoring. This method is based on the combination of principal component analysis (PCA) and P-t-SNE, and it is applied to an experimental case study of an aluminum plate with four piezoelectric transducers. The basic steps of the detection and classification process are: (i) the raw data are scaled using mean-centered group scaling and then PCA is applied to reduce its dimensionality; (ii) P-t-SNE is applied to represent the scaled and reduced data as 2-dimensional points, defining a cluster for each structural state; and (iii) the current structure to be diagnosed is associated with a cluster employing two strategies: (a) majority voting; and (b) the sum of the inverse distances. The results in the frequency domain manifest the strong performance of P-t-SNE, which is comparable to the performance of t-SNE but outperforms t-SNE in terms of computational cost and runtime. When the method is based on P-t-SNE, the overall accuracy fluctuates between 99.5% and 99.75%.


2011 ◽  
Vol 368-373 ◽  
pp. 2402-2405
Author(s):  
Nai Zhi Zhao ◽  
Chang Tie Huang ◽  
Xin Chen

Many of the wave propagation based structural health monitoring techniques rely on some knowledge of the structure in a healthy state in order to identify damage. Baseline measurements are recorded when a structure is pristine and are stored for comparison to future data. A concern with the use of baseline subtraction methods is the ability to discern structural changes from the effects of varying environmental and operational conditions when analyzing the vibration response of a system. The use of a standard baseline subtraction technique may falsely indicate damage when environmental or operational variations are present between baseline measurements and new measurements. A procedure was outlined for the method, including excitation and recording of Lamb waves, and the use of damage detection algorithms. In this paper, several tests are performed and the results are used to help develop the damage detection algorithms previously described, and to evaluate the performance of the instantaneous baseline SHM technique. Analytical testing is first performed by feeding known input signals into each damage detection algorithm and analyzing the output data. The results of the analytical testing are used to help develop the damage detection algorithms.


2012 ◽  
Vol 518 ◽  
pp. 289-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Mendrok ◽  
Tadeusz Uhl ◽  
Wojciech Maj ◽  
Paweł Paćko

The modal filter has various applications, among the others for damage detection. It was shown, that a structural modification (e.g. drop of stiffness due to a crack) causes an appearance of peaks on the output of the modal filter. This peaks result from not perfect modal filtration due to system local structural changes. That makes it a great indicator for damage detection, which has fallowing advantages: low computational afford due to the data reduction, the structural health monitoring system based on it, is easy to automate. Furthermore the system is theoretically insensitive to environmental changes as temperature or humidity variation (global structural changes do not cause a drop of modal filtration accuracy). In the paper the practical implementation of the presented technique is shown. The developed structural health monitoring (SHM) system is described as well as results of its extensive simulation and laboratory testing. Finally the application of the system for the structural changes detection on the airplane parts is presented..


Author(s):  
Guowei Cai ◽  
Sankaran Mahadevan

This manuscript explores the application of big data analytics in online structural health monitoring. As smart sensor technology is making progress and low cost online monitoring is increasingly possible, large quantities of highly heterogeneous data can be acquired during the monitoring, thus exceeding the capacity of traditional data analytics techniques. This paper investigates big data techniques to handle the highvolume data obtained in structural health monitoring. In particular, we investigate the analysis of infrared thermal images for structural damage diagnosis. We explore the MapReduce technique to parallelize the data analytics and efficiently handle the high volume, high velocity and high variety of information. In our study, MapReduce is implemented with the Spark platform, and image processing functions such as uniform filter and Sobel filter are wrapped in the mappers. The methodology is illustrated with concrete slabs, using actual experimental data with induced damage


Author(s):  
Derek Doyle ◽  
Whitney Reynolds ◽  
Brandon Arritt ◽  
Brenton Taft

Research at the AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate is being conducted to reduce schedule times for assembly, integration, and test, to make satellite-based capabilities more responsive to user needs. Structural Health Monitoring has been pursued as a means for validating workmanship and has been proven on PnPSat-1. Embedded ultrasonic piezoelectric wafer active sensors (PWAS) have been utilized with local and global inspection techniques, developed both in house and by collaborating universities, to detect structural changes that may occur during assembly, integration, and test. Specific attention has focused on interface qualification. It is now reasonable to believe that evaluation of interfaces through the use of such sensors can also be used to indirectly qualify the structure thermally and that tedious thermal-vacuum testing may be truncated or eliminated altogether. This paper focuses on the computational development of extracting thermal properties from ultrasonic transmission records. Methods are validated on simple bolted lap-joint cantilever beams.


2012 ◽  
Vol 225 ◽  
pp. 344-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamad Zikri Zainol ◽  
Faizal Mustapha ◽  
Mohamed Thariq Hameed Sultan ◽  
N. Yidris

This paper presents the newly improved design of wireless sensor technology for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system or continuous monitoring for Non Destructive Testing (NDT). Numerous researches have indulged in designing wireless sensor networks where the reliability and the capability to do rapid assessment on the aeronautical, mechanical and civil structure are concerned. A lot of challenges associated with the design have been discussed including on power consumption by the device with regards the operation nature over period of times vs. energy sources. This research project explores the implementation of Nano Watt XLPTM technology microcontroller from Microchip and applicable smart PZT sensors or the newly refined technique in (NDT) that utilise ultrasonic guided waveform response to detect structural defects. The developed SHM system provide low power wireless nodes to perform automatic data collection and analysis with possibilities to integrate with green energy sources more effectively thus reducing the cost of maintenance and increase the reliability of the system.


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