Mingyu Lu1,*, Kaige Zhu1, Qiang Wang2
Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.15, No.3, pp. 207-225, 2021, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2021.017720
- 07 September 2021
Abstract The increasing use of ultrasonic guided waves (GWs) has been shown to have great potential for the detection of fatigue cracks and non-fatigue type damages in metallic structures. This paper reports on a study demonstrating an energy-based damage imaging approach in which signal characteristics identified through relative time differences by fatigue crack (RTD/f) through different sensor paths are used to estimate the location of fatigue crack in steel plates based on GWs generated by an active piezoceramic transducer (PZT) network. The propagation of GWs in the original 10 mm-thick plate was complicated due to its… More >