Amafabia, Daerefa-a Mitsheal1, Montalvão, Diogo2, David-West, Opukuro1, Haritos, George1
Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.11, No.2, pp. 91-147, 2017, DOI:10.3970/sdhm.2017.011.091
Abstract Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is the process of collecting, interpreting and analysing data from structures in order to determine its health status and the remaining life span. Composite materials have been extensively use in recent years in several industries with the aim at reducing the total weight of structures while improving their mechanical properties. However, composite materials are prone to develop damage when subjected to low to medium impacts (i.e. 1-10 m/s and 11-30 m/s respectively). Hence, the need to use SHM techniques to detect damage at the incipient initiation in composite materials is of… More >
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