Structural Health Monitoring 2009

VOLUME 1

Preface

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

• Structural Health Management an Evolution in Design
• Optical Fiber Distributed Sensing: Physical Principles and Applications
• SHM in the Navy
• Structural Health Monitoring in the Mainland of China: Review and Future Trends
• Operations Support and Sustainment Technology Program, Providing Technology for Condition Based Maintenance

AEROSPACE, AIRCRAFT, ROTORCRAFT AND LAUNCH SYSTEMS

• Structural Health Monitoring, In-Service Experience, Benefit and Way Ahead
• SHM: A Hands on Approach
• Application of Inverse Analysis of Distributed Load with Strain Sensors to Wing Structures
• Structural Condition Monitoring of Aviation Components
• SHM Applications: Detection and Tracking of Damage in an Aerospace Wing Attachment Fitting
• Smart Cure Monitoring of Bonded Composite Repairs
• Status of MSG-3 (Maintenance Steering Group 3) Guidance on Using SHM for Scheduled Maintenance
• Use of Lamb Wave Propagation for SHM and Damage Detection in Sandwich Composite Aeronautical Structures
• Aluminum Extrusions with Microcavities Enabling Cost-Effective Monitoring of Aerospace Structures
• Compact, Lightweight Optical Fibre Bragg Grating Instrumentation Designed Specifically for Aerospace Applications
• Reliability of the Impact Damage Detection System for Airframe Structures Using Optical Fiber Sensors
• Autonomous Structural Health Monitoring for Space Drilling Application
• Interaction of Lamb Waves with Impact Damaged CFRP’s—Effects and Conclusions for Acousto-Ultrasonic Applications
• Demonstration of De-Bonding Detection by the Lamb Wave Sensing Device Using FBG Sensor and AWG Type Filter
• Health Monitoring of Structures with Fatigue Damage and Applied Composite Repair
• Use of Mountable Sensors to Address Periodic Inspections for Cracks on Regional Aircraft
• Guided Technology Development and Maturity Assessment of SHM in Airbus
• Validation and Verification of a Hard Landing Indication System for Aircraft Landing Gear
• Multimode NDE for Structural Integrity Monitoring of Helicopter Main Rotor Blades
• FBG Sensor Applications to the Structural Tests of a Newly Developed External Pod for Military Jet Aircrafts
• Application of Bispectral Analysis in Nonlinear Ultrasonic Structural Health Monitoring
• Prospective Applications for SHM on Commercial Aircraft
• Impact Load Estimation and Damage Detection for Fiberglass Composite Rotor Blades
• Structural Health Monitoring of AMB Supported Rotors
• Interface Waves for SHM of Adhesively Bonded Joints
• Non-Contact Ultrasonic Guided Wave Detection of Rail Defects. Prototype Development and Field Testing for the Federal Railroad Administration
• FBG Sensor Installation and Integration Using SMART Layer Technologies for Aerospace Applications

CIVIL, PIPELINES AND ENERGY STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURES

• Monitoring Low-Temperature Cracking Stresses in Asphalt Mixtures Using an Acoustic Emission Approach
• Focusing of Ultrasonic Waves in Cylindrical Shells Using Time Reversal
• Detection of Critical Details and Life Time Assessment of Steel Bridges
• Feasibility Investigation on Fatigue Crack Damage Detection of Fiber Composite Wrapped Tank for On-Board High Pressure Hydrogen Storage
• Bridge Health Monitoring Using Commercial Remote Sensing
• Structural Monitoring of “Republic Subway Station” of Sao Paulo Subway
• Feasibility of Structural Health Monitoring of Concrete Structures by Optical Backscatter Reflectometer
• Investigation of Pile-Integrity Using Wavelet Analyses
• GPS-Based SHM of a Tall Building: Torsional Effects
• Big Bang-Big Crunch Optimization for Structural System Identification
• Enhanced Damage Index Method Using Torsion Modes
• Real Time Active Pipeline Integrity Detection System for Direct Assessment of Corrosion
• A System for Static Monitoring of Sports Center Structures

HEALTH MANAGEMENT/CBM+

• Enhancing HMMWV Operational Availability through the Use of an Instrumented Diagnostic Cleat for Condition-Based Maintenance
• Structural Damage Detection Utilizing Accelerations Induced by Moving Load
• An Integrated Diagnostic and Prognostic SHM Technology for Structural Health Management
• A Structural Health Monitoring System as Part of an Aircraft Integrated Vehicle Health Monitoring Architecture for Condition-Based Maintenance
• Corrosion Monitoring Technologies with Structural and Drive train Applications
• End-to-End Automated Analytics for CBM+

HEALTH MONITORING OF BRIDGES FOR ASSET MANAGEMENT

• Influence of Measurement and Model Parameters in Computational Model Updating Using UHPC Samples
• Probabilistic Monitoring Concepts for Jointless Bridges
• Mitigation of Uncertainty in the Structural Identification of Long-Span Suspension Bridges
• Damage Assessment Using a Novel Modified Time Series Analysis Methodology
• Mechanical and Heat Induced Damage Detection in Polymer Tiles by THz Radiation

IMPLEMENTATION/VALIDATION FOR SHM

• Probabilistic Considerations are Essential to QNDE and SHM
• Tension Fatigue Durability of Surface-Mounted and Embedded Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors for Composite Structures
• Implementation of a Real-Time System and Computation Method for Structural Loads Identification
• Instantaneous Baseline Damage Detection Using a Low Power Guided Waves System
• Aircraft Strain Gage Calibration Using Response to Dynamic Inputs
• A Probabilistic Approach for Structural Health Assessment and Prognosis Based on Monitored Data
• Three Models for Sensor Validation
• Automated Output-Only Modal Analysis for Structural Health Monitoring of Heritage Structures: Experimental Validation
• Experimental Verifications of a Structural Damage Identification Technique Using Reduced Order Finite-Element Model
• Experimental Validation of Damage Identification Algorithms in R.C. Structures
• Development of Effective Structural Health Monitoring Strategies Using Self Organizing Map and Index Based Reasoning
• Progressive Damage Estimation Using Sequential Monte Carlo Techniques
• Case Studies of Wireless Sensor Monitoring for Structural Identification and Evaluation of Bridge Superstructures
• Challenge and Solution of Combining Active and Passive Systems
• Real Time Operating Data Expansion for Dynamic Stress and Dynamic Strain Fatigue Accumulation
• Design of Intelligent Composite Armor Systems with SMART Technology
• Rail Track and Rail Vehicle Intelligent Monitoring System
• Ice Load Monitoring with FBGs and Residual Strength Analysis on an Ice Breaker Operating in Arctic Waters
• SHM Studies on Bolu Viaduct, Turkey
• High Performance Fiber Bragg Grating Systems for Smart Structures: Application to Overhead Contact Line Monitoring in the Railway Industry

MODELING AND SIMULATION

• Characterization of Guided-Wave Excitation and Propagation in Composite Plates
• Bond Graph Method for Hierarchical, Multi-Domain Systems Diagnosis
• Wave Propagation in Bounded Waveguides Using Exact Values of Connection Coefficients of Wavelets
• Piezoelectrically Generated Lamb Waves in Elastic and Viscoelastic Plates—Analysis and Experimental Verification
• Identification of the Critical Crack Depths and Locations of Rotordynamic Systems in Backward Whirl
• The Influence of the Structure Area on the Performance of SHM Systems Based on E/M Impedance
• On the Structural Optimization of Brake Disks with Respect to Their Vibrational Behavior
• Cost Effective Computer Vision Based Structural Health Monitoring Using Adaptive LMS Filters
• Shear Lag Solutions for Solid-State Actuators Bonded to Structures in SHM Applications
• Sensor Placement for Detection of Cracks in Structures Exhibiting Nonlinear Dynamics
• Analytical Axisymmetric Coupled Piezo-Elastodynamic Models for Guided-Wave Structural Health Monitoring
• Finite Element Simulation of Lamb Wave with Piezoelectric Transducers for Plasticity-Driven Damage Detection
• Comparison of SAFT and EUSR Techniques for Linear Array Sensor
• Material Uncertainty Effect on Damage Indicator for Smart Composite Structure with Matrix Cracks
• Excitation Optimization for Damage Detection
• Damage Detection in Initially Nonlinear Systems
• Advanced Sensing, Degradation Detection, Diagnostic and Prognostic Capabilities for Structural Health Management

SENSING NETWORK, AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM

• Adapting Performance in Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks for Structural Health Monitoring Applications
• Ultra Low-Power Autonomous Wireless Structural Health Monitoring Node
• Multifunctional Sensor Nodes in Stretchable Network for Structural Health Monitoring
• Damage Localization in Anisotropic Plates Using an Active Guided Wave Structural Health Monitoring System
• Experimental Measurements of Changes Induced by Delaminations in the Strain Field Using a Distributed Sensing Technique
• Impedance-Based Wireless Sensor Node for SHM, Sensor Diagnostics, and Low-Frequency Vibration Data Acquisition
• Self-Powered Arrayed Piezo-Sensor System for Recording Larger Magnitudes of Stress Loading
• Low-Voltage, Broad-Band Multi-Channel-Sensor-Network for Health Monitoring of Significant Areas in Complex Structures of Curved or Extended Geometries
• Time Reversal Based Piezoelectric Transducer Self-Diagnosis under Varying Structural Conditions
• On the Transmissibility Functions and Their Use for Damage Localization
• Acoustic Communications: A Link Between SHM and Robotic NDE
• Hierarchical Sensing System for Detecting Impact Damage in Composite Structures Combining a Fiber Optic Spinal Cord Network and Distributed Sensor Nerve Cell Devices
• Design of a Multi-Channel Real-Time Wireless Connection System for Analog Cable Replacement
• Energy Harvesting and Wireless Energy Transmission for Powering SHM Sensor Nodes
• Cross-Functional Design of Wireless Sensor Networks Applied to Aircraft Health Monitoring
• Zigbee-Enabled Structural Health Monitoring with the SmartBrick Network
• A Market-Driven Computing Architecture for the Simultaneous Execution of Multiple Computational Tasks within Dynamic Wireless Structural Monitoring Systems

SENSORS AND ACTUATORS DEVELOPMENT

• A Multi-Level Damage Localization Strategy with Distributed Computation for Effectively Using Energy in WSNS
• Novel Wireless Sensors for Structural Health Surveillance
• Measuring Temperature and Pressure by Optical-Fiber Sensor in a Stratum-Disposal System
• Fabry Perot Optical Fiber Pressure/Acoustic Sensor with Accurate Cavity Length Control
• Sensitive Materials
• Low-Cost Interrogation Unit for Wavelength-Encoded Optical Sensors
• Glass Fibre Reinforced Composites with a Carbon Nanotube Modified Epoxy Matrix as Self Sensing Material
• Sparse-Array Guided Wave SHM System Applied to a Real Structure Without Temperature Control
• A Battery-Free Wireless Pressure Sensor for Structural Health Monitoring
• Novel Actuator Based on the Stress Wave Propagation in Highly Nonlinear Materials
• Simultaneous Distributed Strain and Temperature Measurements by Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry Using Polarization-Maintaining Fiber Bragg Grating
• Carbon Fiber/Nanotube Cement-Based Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring
• Novel Multi-Channel Fiber Bragg Grating Interrogation System for Acoustic Emission Measurements
• Low Electrical Resistance Latching MEMS Shock Sensor
• Structural Health Monitoring Using Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Enhanced Composites
• Novel Approach to Make Low Cost, High Density PZT Phased Array and Its Application in Structural Health Monitoring
• Piezoelectric Circular Array for Structural Health Monitoring Using Lamb Waves
• Comparison of Different Sensor Technologies for AE Based Impact Damage Detection
• Crack Detection and Monitoring Using Patch Antenna
• The Development of a Fibre Optic Based Acoustic Emission System
• Design of Planar Electrodes for Multifunctional Piezoelectric Sensors
• Directionality of Lamb Wave Displacement Field Generated by Circular Piezoelectric Wafer Actuators
• Development of Magneto-Elastic Active Sensors (MEAS) for Damage Detection in Aerospace Structures
• Integration of Multi-Functional Diamond Sensors with Silicon Technologies for Sensing in Harsh Environments

VOLUME 2

SIGNAL PROCESSING, MONITORING, DIAGNOSTICS

• Phase Gradient-Based Damage Characterization of Structures
• Selecting Features for Damage Identification Without Damaging the Structure
• Addressable Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures
• Global Material Characterization of Composite Structures Using Lamb Wave STMR Array Technique
• Baseline-Free Damage Detection Through Mode Separation of Lamb Waves Using Self-Sensing Piezoelectric Transducers
• Limits of Single-Mode Elliptical Triangulation Algorithm for Structural Health and Usage Monitoring of Aeronautical Structures
• Comparison of Vibration Based Damage Parameters of Beams with Notch Like Damages for Timoshenko and Euler Bernoulli Beam Theories
• Numerical Analysis of Impact Identification in Plate Structures Using Time-Reversal Method
• Structural Health Monitoring and Evaluation of Human Gait to Assist in the Diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease
• Performance of Modal Macrostrain Flexibility Methods for Damage Localization Using Long-Gage FBG Sensors
• Highly Scalable Matching Pursuit Signal Decomposition Algorithm
• Information Theoretic Measure for Wavelet Selection in Non-Stationary Vibration Analysis
• Advanced Methods for Time-of-Flight Estimation with Application to Lamb Wave Structural Health Monitoring
• A Decomposition Mode Matching Damage Index
• New Approaches to Detect and to Classify Wear Phenomena
• Coupled Acoustic Emission Damage Detection and Active-Healing Smart Structural System
• Quantifying Orientation-Specific Damage Using Diagnostic Imaging
• Artificial Neural Network Based Structural Damage Diagnosis Using Non-Parametric Subspace Residual
• Compact Piezoelectric Arrays for Imaging Strategies in Damage Detection
• Delamination Detection in CFRP Laminates Using the Dispersion Characteristic of Broadband Lamb Waves Excited by MFC Actuator and Received in FBG Sensor
• Lamb Wave Signals for Damage Detection Using a Probability-Based Imaging Algorithm
• Deformation Monitoring of Composite Structures with Consideration of Data Reliability of Embedded Brillouin-Scattering Based Distributed Optical Fiber Strain Sensor
• Multiple Damage Identification in CFRP Laminates with Delaminations Using Fiber Optic Sensors
• Case-Based Reasoning for the Assessment of Simple Structures in Terms of Structural Health Monitoring
• SHM with Sparse Ultrasonic Arrays in Complex Structural Components
• Optimization of PCA Models for SHM Applications with Multiple Sensors
• Structural Health Monitoring Algorithm Comparisons Using Standard Data Sets
• Vector-Based Damage Localization for Anisotropic Composite Laminates
• Different Methods for Damage Analysis in Composite Structures Using Guided Waves
• Damage Detection and Localization with Experimental Eigen-Sensitivities
• Acoustic Emission Source Location in Composite Structure by Geodesic Curve Evolution
• Compensation Techniques for Extracing Long-Term Trends in SHM Data
• Hot Spot Monitoring of a Composite Wing
• Analysis of 3D-Acousto Ultrasonic’s Data Files
• Fault Detection in Bearings Using Acoustics Emission Signals under Various Operating Conditions
• Distributed Modal Identification by Regularized Auto Regressive Models
• Damage Detection Based on the Signature of the Structural Response to Random Excitation
• Position-Sensitivity Analysis of the EMD Algorithm
• System Identification of Reinforced Concrete Frames Subjected to Static and Dynamic Load
• Damping Identification of Cable Vibration With and Without MR Dampers
• Detection of Structural Damages Using Vibrothermography

SPECIAL SESSION: DATA MINING AND PROGNOSTICS

• Bayesian Support Vector Machine Approach with Gaussian Process Priors for Prognostics in Avionics
• Elimination of Long-Term Trends in SHM Data Using Cointegration
• Data-Driven Damage Detection Using Artificial Neural Networks Applied to Composite Repair of a Metallic Structure
• Prediction of Fatigue Damage and Residual Useful Life for Composite Structures Using Passive Sensing
• A New Method for Concurrent Multi-Scale Fatigue Damage Prognosis
• Predictive Structural Health Monitoring Using a Multivariate Statistical Analysis System
• Structural Health Monitoring Approach Based on Dynamics of Prediction-Error for ARX and Neural Network Models
• Mobile Sensor Agent to Acquire Acceleration Data for Structural Health Monitoring
• Numerical Investigation of Temperature Effect on Modal Parameters of the China National Aquatics Center
• Performance Estimation of Two Base-Isolated Buildings with Different Rubber Bearings
• Signal-Based Modeling—A New Method for Classifying System States
• Impact Damage Detection and Quantification in CFRP Laminates: A Precursor to Machine Learning
• Wear Prognosis Based on Identified Damage Accumulation Models
• Prediction of Residents’ Behavior Using Data Mining of Environmental Information

SPECIAL SESSION: HEALTH MONITORING FOR WIND TURBINES

• Sensor Acceleration Potential Field Identification of Wind Turbine Rotor Blades
• Guided-Wave Excitation in Wind Turbine Structures Using Anisotropic Piezo-Fiber Transducers
• Comparison of the Three Different Approaches for Damage Detection in the Part of the Composite Wind Turbine Blade
• Investigation of Various Wind Turbine Drivetrain Condition Monitoring Techniques
• Wind Turbine Structural Health Monitoring Using Optical Fiber Based Sensors
• Development of Condition Monitoring Systems for Rotor Blades of Windmills
• Applications of Digital Image Correlation and Dynamic Photogrammetry for Rotating and Non-Rotating Structures
• On Field Wind Load Reconstruction for a 5MW Onshore Wind Energy Plant
• Wind Energy’s New Role in Supplying the World’s Energy: What Role will Structural Health Monitoring Play?
• Multi-Scale Monitoring of Wind Energy Plants Based on Agent Technology
• Fatigue Test of an Experimental BSDS Wind Turbine Blade PZT Active Vibration Health Monitoring and Acoustic Emission Results
• ROC Curves for Evaluating Sensor Performance as Low Energy Impacts Damage a Composite Wing

SPECIAL SESSION: INDUSTRIAL SMART MATERIAL APPLICATIONS

• Short-Gage and Long-Gage Sensors: Applicability and Interpretation of Measurement
• Vibration-Based Identification of Civic Bell Tower
• Development and Testing of Smart CFRP Rods for Structural Health Monitoring
• Development of Online Structural Health Monitoring and Ground Nondestructive System for Unmanned Composite Aerial Vehicles
• Integrated Structural Health Monitoring Systems for Buildings
• The ISMA Initiative: Collaborative International Research for the Advancement of Structural Health Monitoring
• Structural Monitoring of Andirap Bridge for Overload Passage
• Wireless Sensor Networks for Underground Railway Applications: The Light at the End of the Tunnel?
• Static and Dynamic Health Monitoring of a High-Rise Building with Optical Fiber Sensor (SOFO)
• A Mobile Agent-Based Wireless Sensing Network for SHM—Field Study at the Alamos Canyon Bridge
• POF Sensors Integrated in Technical Textiles for Monitoring of Earthwork Structures and Masonry
• Self Powered Wireless Sensor Network for Structural Bridge Health Prognosis: A 5-Year Research and Development Project for Infrastructure Sustainability

SPECIAL SESSION: MULTIFUNCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR SHM

• Strain Sensing Properties of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Film
• Static and Dynamic Optical Measurement in SHM of Civil Structures
• Piezoelectric Zinc Oxide-Polymer Nanocomposites for Sensing and Energy Harvesting
• Theoretical Analysis of Multi-Mode Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvesters
• Percolation Behavior and Electrical Conductivity of Magnetorheological Elastomers

SPECIAL SESSION: NONLINEAR ULTRASONIC SHM

• Numerical Modeling of Non-Linear Ultrasonic Wave Propagation Using Cellular Automata
• Crack Detection Diagnostics Using Ultrasonic Insonification
• Application of Non-Linear Mechanical Wave Behavior to Characterize Cement Based Materials
• Time Series Damage State Estimation Using Empirical Transfer Function Estimation Approach and Broadband Chirp Active Sensing
• Behavior of Nonlinear Higher Harmonics in Plate and Rod Guided Waves
• Investigation of Linear and Nonlinear Electromechanical Impedance Techniques for Detection of Fatigue Damage in Aerospace Materials

SPECIAL SESSION: SHM FOR HOT SPOT APPLICATIONS

• Design and Validation of a Structural Health Monitoring System for a Hot Spot on a Metallic Lug Component
• Fatigue Crack Identification in Thick Steel Beam Using Guided Waves
• The Use of Lamb Waves in Monitoring the Development of Sub-Surface Defects
• Statistical Damage Estimation at Hot Spots Using Gaussian Mixture Model
• The Early Stage Crack Detection Using Non-Linear Feature Extraction of the Self-Sensing Piezoelectric Impedance Measurements

SPECIAL SESSION: SHM FOR SHIP STRUCTURES

• Using Diffuse Vibrations Interferometry for Structural Health Monitoring of High-Speed Naval Ships
• Impact Force Identification and Location on Isotropic and Composite Panels
• Embedded Sensor System for Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures
• Efficient Excitation Tailoring Using IIR Filters as Surrogates for Structural Models
• Monitoring of a High Speed Naval Vessel Using a Wireless Hull Monitoring System
• Support Vector Autoregression in the Structural Health Monitoring Paradigm
• A Computational Framework to Model Damage Due to Corrosion in Aluminum Alloys
• A Bayesian Approach to Identifying and Tracking Damage in Structures
• Model-Based Structure Health Monitoring Using Parallel Stochastic Search Methods to Enable Inverse Solutions
• Structural Health Monitoring for Ship Structures

SPECIAL SESSION: SHM IN CIVIL APPLICATIONS

• Corrosion Monitoring of Metals with an Active Magnetic Sensing Scheme
• Study of Temperature Induced Displacement for Cable Stayed Bridge Using Health Monitoring System
• Evaluation of the Performance of a Distributed Structural Health Monitoring Algorithm for Wireless Sensing
• Flexure-Based Mechatronic Mobile Sensors for Structure Damage Detection
• Application of Wavelet Based Damage Sensitive Features for Structural Damage Diagnosis
• Data Qualification and Error Quantification for Bridge Monitoring Systems in Connecticut
• LMI-Based Robust Fault/Damage Detection and Isolation Using Eigenstructure Assignment Method
• Tool Set for Monitoring of Prestressed Elements of PC-Structures
• SHM of Chemically Bonded Anchors by Means of Acoustic Emission
• Damage Detection Using Stochastic Subspace Identification with Partial Measurements
• Baseline-Free Structural Damage Detection Using Chaotic Excitation
• Integrated Monitoring of Civil Structures
• Real-Time Health Monitoring of Historic Buildings with Wireless Sensor Networks
• Development of a Wireless Sensor Network to Monitor Historic Structures
• Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor for Fatigue Monitoring of Composite
• A Framework for Damage Diagnosis on Civil Structures Using Rotation Measurements
• Decentralized Damage Detection by Transfer Function Pole Migration in Dense Sensor Networks
• Stress Monitoring in Prestressing Tendons for Post-Tensioned Concrete Structures by Nonlinear Ultrasonic Guided Waves
• Experimental Verification of the Use of Control Systems to Improve SHM of Shear Structures
• Optimal Sensor Placement on Cables of Cable-Stayed Bridges for Structural Damage Evaluation
• Application of Parametric Bootstrap Technique for Damage Detection of a Scaled Reinforced Concrete Bridge
• Signal-Based Information Processing Methods for the Structural Health Monitoring of Sustainable Architectures

SPECIAL SESSION: SHM IN COMPLEX AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES

• Common Failure Modes Affecting the Performance of Aerospace Systems
• Nonstationary Vibro-Acoustic Modulation for Crack Detection in a Representative Wing Attachment Fitting
• Overview of Applications of Magnetostrictive-Based Sensors for SHM
• Lessons Learned from the Deployment of Inspection Procedures for Complex Aircraft Structural Components
• Model-Assisted Methods for Validation of Structural Health Monitoring Systems
• Complex Aircraft Structures: An Initial Evaluation of Multiple Crack Detection Systems
• Remendable Materials Using Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) to Solve Aerospace Problems

SPECIAL SESSION: WAVES PROPAGATION MODELS IN DAMAGE DETECTION

• Feasibility Study of Rosette Transducers
• Adhesive Layer Effects on Temperature-Sensitive Lamb Waves Induced by Surface-Mounted PZT Actuators
• Propagation of Guided Waves and Their Interactions with Defects in a Composite Tail Boom Structure
• The Wing for Small Aircraft Application with a Configuration of Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors
• Disbond Detection in Composite Repairs Using Lamb Waves Excited and Detected by PZT Discs
• Spectral Element Method for Wave Propagation Modeling in 2D and 3D Solids
• Elastic Wave-Based Method for Condition Monitoring
• Lamb Wave Propagation in a Hybrid Glass/Carbon Composite Laminate for Electromagnetic Shielding
• Modelling of Wave Propagation and Impedance Spectra with the Spectral Element Method
• An Investigation into the Instantaneous Phase of Guided Ultrasonic Waves in a Multi-Riveted Strap Joint Aluminum Panel
• Simulation of Piezoelectric Induced Lamb Waves in Plates
• Acoustic Wave Propagation in Thick Composite Honeycomb Panels with Faults
• Experimental Verification of Damage Localisation Algorithm Based on Triangular PZT Transducers Network

Author Index for Volumes 1 and 2