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Mengyue He1, Zhifang Zhang1,*, Karthik Ram Ramakrishnan2
Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.12, No.4, pp. 213-256, 2018, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2018.05122
Abstract Fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composite laminates are now commonly used in many structural applications, especially in the aerospace industry, where margins of safety are kept low in order to minimise weight. Timely detection and assessment of damage (in particular delaminations) in composite laminates are therefore critical, as they can cause loss of structural integrity affecting the safe operation of the composite structures. The current trend is towards implementation of structural health monitoring (SHM) systems which can monitor the structures in situ without down time. In this paper, first, the current available SHM techniques for delamination detection in FRP composites are… More >
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Costas P. Providakis1,*, Stavros E. Tsistrakis1, Evangelos V. Liarakos1
Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.12, No.4, pp. 257-279, 2018, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2018.04607
Abstract In the present study a new structural health monitoring (SHM) technique is proposed as well as a new damage index based on 2-D error statistics. The proposed technique combines the electromechanical impedance technique (EMI) which is based on the use of piezoelectric Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT) patches and Scanning Laser Doppler Vibrometry (SLDV) for damage detection purposes of concrete structures and early age monitoring. Typically the EMI technique utilizes the direct and inverse piezoelectric effect of a PZT patch attached to a host structure via an impedance analyzer that is used for both the actuation and sensing the response of… More >
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Hai Qian1,*, Ding Zhou2, Bin Gu1, Rathnayaka Mudiyanselage D. M. S.3
Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.12, No.4, pp. 281-298, 2018, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2018.04618
Abstract The temperature fields in the laminated shells were studied, including open cylindrical shells and cylindrical shells, according to the thermal theory. Analytical solution of the temperature in the shells with the known temperature on the surfaces was present. The thinning layer approach was introduced to simplify the three-dimensional heat conduction equation. Firstly, the layered shell was divided into N thinner layers. The governing equation was simplified by replacing the variable r by r0 in the center line of every thin layer. The general solutions of temperature satisfying the simplified three-dimensional governing equation in single-layered shell were deduced in the cylindrical… More >
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Xixiang Chen1, Yu Chen2, *, Kang He2, Fernando Palacios Galarza3
Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.12, No.4, pp. 299-322, 2018, DOI: doi:10.32604/sdhm.2018.04625
Abstract In order to studythe web-crippling behavior of aluminum hollow section subjected toconcentrated load, sixteen aluminum hollow tubes withdifferent loading conditions, bearing lengthandweb slenderness ratioswere tested. This paperalso discusseda method to improve the web crippling strength of the aluminum hollow sections byinfilling the mortar as composite section, and four aluminum composite sections were tested. The literature has reported lots of web crippling tests, butthere isfew reportson web crippling behavior of aluminum composite sections. Interior-Ground(IG) and End-Ground(EG)loading conditions were adopted, with the specimens placed on the ground to simulate the load of floor joists. Specimens were also placed on a bearing plate… More >
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