Imaging Damage Using Mixed Passive and Active Sensors

Abstract:

Existing damage imaging techniques rely on the use of active sensors, such as piezoelectric actuators, that can both transmit and receive guided waves. This paper presents a new time-reversal imaging approach to enable the use of passive sensors, such as optical fibre sensors and strain gauges, to augment active sensors for imaging structural damage. Computational simulations have revealed that damage size and severity can be accurately determined from the scattered wave using as few as six sensors: one active sensor and five passive sensors.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 558)
• Pages: 244-251
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.558.244
• Online since: June 2013
• Authors: Chun H. Wang, L.R. Francis Rose
• Keywords: Active Sensors, Imaging, Passive Sensors, Prognostic Health Management

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