In recent years, composite materials have gained popularity in numerous high-tech and
engineering applications, owing to their outstanding physico-mechanical properties. They …

Nondestructive evaluation (NDE) research on composite materials has been ongoing for
several decades, during which time their use has expanded significantly in the aerospace …

Currently, the steel–concrete composite structures (SCCSs) have been widely applied as
primary load-bearing members owing to their excellent structural behavior. However, due to …

This paper proposes a real-time non-destructive evaluation technique to detect defects in
laminated composites by deep learning using highly nonlinear solitary waves (HNSWs) …

In order to detect interfacial imperfections for steel–concrete composite structures (SCCSs),
various advanced non-destructive testing (NDT) methods have been proposed in recent …

Ultrasonic inspection is widely used for non-destructive evaluation of composite adhesive
joints. However, there are serious challenges in applying ultrasonic testing on metal to …

Kissing bonds pose a serious threat and an obstacle to the application of adhesive bonding
in engineering structures. This paper describes an investigation of the formation of kissing …

Structural adhesives are employed as bonding agents in the construction industry, to
externally bond fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials onto existing structures …

In this study, we explored the detection of weak bonds (WBs) due to contamination and
faulty curing (FC) using linear ultrasound and machine learning. For this purpose, aluminium …

A method to quantify the interface shear stiffness, adhesive shear modulus and adhesive
thickness in an aluminium-epoxy-aluminium joint is presented. Shear horizontal guided …