Environmental and operational conditions effects on Lamb wave based structural health monitoring systems: A review

R Gorgin, Y Luo, Z Wu - Ultrasonics, 2020 - Elsevier
Lamb wave is widely recognized as one of the most encouraging tools for structural health
monitoring (SHM) systems. In spite of many favourable characteristics of Lamb wave for …

Structural health monitoring of adhesive joints using Lamb waves: A review

GMF Ramalho, AM Lopes… - Structural Control and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the past decades, Lamb waves (LW) have seen encouraging results when applied to non
destructive testing (NDT) and structural health monitoring (SHM), with important research …

Boundary element modelling of ultrasonic Lamb waves for structural health monitoring

J Li, ZS Khodaei, MH Aliabadi - Smart Materials and Structures, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, a novel boundary element plate formulation is proposed to model ultrasonic
Lamb waves in both pristine and cracked plates for structural health monitoring (SHM) …

Novelty detection and dimension reduction via guided ultrasonic waves: Damage monitoring of scarf repairs in composite laminates

S Pavlopoulou, K Worden… - Journal of Intelligent …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This work focuses on structural health monitoring aspects of composite adhesively bonded
repairs, evaluating their performance with guided ultrasonic waves. These repairs have …

Optimizing location of damage within an enclosed area defined by an algorithm based on the Lamb wave response data

FA Masurkar, NP Yelve - Applied Acoustics, 2017 - Elsevier
In the present study, experiments are carried out on an Aluminium (Al) plate with and without
damage, using Lamb waves and an array of four Piezoelectric Wafer (PW) transducers …

Effects of adhesive thickness on the Lamb wave pitch-catch signal using bonded piezoelectric wafer transducers

MM Islam, H Huang - Smart Materials and Structures, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper investigates the effects of adhesive layer on Lamb wave ultrasound pitch-catch
signals that are excited and sensed by piezoelectric wafer transducers bonded on a slender …

Modeling guided wave excitation in plates with surface mounted piezoelectric elements: coupled physics and normal mode expansion

B Ren, CJ Lissenden - Smart Materials and Structures, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Guided waves have been extensively studied and widely used for structural health
monitoring because of their large volumetric coverage and good sensitivity to defects …

Debonding of piezoelectric transducers for residue-free ultrasonic non-destructive testing

M Eppmann, M Rütters, A Szewieczek… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Components made of fibre-reinforced polymers (FRP) are prone to different types of
damages such as delamination or matrix cracks, which can be critical for a component's …

2D–3D interface coupling in the time domain spectral element method for the adhesive layer effects on guided wave propagation in composite plates

P Fiborek, P Kudela… - Smart Materials and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
A new approach for numerical simulation of the wave propagation in a composite plate is
presented in this paper. Problem is realized by the 2D–3D coupled time domain spectral …

Analysis of the dynamical behavior of piezoceramic actuators using piezoelectric isogeometric finite elements

C Willberg - Advances in Computational Design, 2016 - elib.dlr.de
In this paper an electromechanically coupled isogeometric finite element is utilized to
analyse Lamb wave excitation with piezoceramic actuators. An effective actuator design …