Structural Health Monitoring: Research and Applications

Review from Ringgold Inc., ProtoView: Fifty-six papers from the December 2012 workshop present new developments in monitoring aircraft structure conditions, civil structures, wind turbines, pipelines, and building systems. The Australian and Japanese researchers detect damage in composite laminates, image damage using mixed active and passive sensors, localize damage detection in a large building, and compare the effectiveness of thermographic testing modalities. Other topics include a bi-axial magneto-electric vibration energy harvester, optical fibers for distributed corrosion sensing, guided waves for aircraft panel monitoring, modeling of nonlinear Lamb waves, and compressive sensing techniques.