[HTML][HTML] Acoustic emission monitoring of wood materials and timber structures: A critical review

V Nasir, S Ayanleye, S Kazemirad, F Sassani… - … and Building Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
The growing interest in timber construction and using more wood for civil engineering
applications has given highlighted importance of developing non-destructive evaluation …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of water in wood by time-domain nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (TD-NMR): a review

J Li, E Ma - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
This review summarizes the development of the experimental technique and analytical
method for using TD-NMR to study wood-water interactions in recent years. We briefly …

Combined machine learning–wave propagation approach for monitoring timber mechanical properties under UV aging

V Nasir, H Fathi, S Kazemirad - Structural Health Monitoring, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This study proposes a combined machine learning–wave propagation approach for
nondestructive prediction of the modulus of elasticity (MOE) and rupture (MOR) of timber …

Nondestructive evaluation of coated structures using Lamb wave propagation

A Ebrahiminejad, A Mardanshahi, S Kazemirad - Applied Acoustics, 2022 - Elsevier
Nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of the mechanical properties and thickness loss of coated
structures is of great importance for health monitoring purposes. This study aimed to …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction of mechanical properties of artificially weathered wood by color change and machine learning

V Nasir, H Fathi, A Fallah, S Kazemirad, F Sassani… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Color parameters were used in this study to develop a machine learning model for
predicting the mechanical properties of artificially weathered fir, alder, oak, and poplar wood …

Simulated Lamb wave propagation method for nondestructive monitoring of matrix cracking in laminated composites

A Mardanshahi, MM Shokrieh… - Structural Health …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The estimation of the damping coefficient may help to improve the damage detection in
composite materials. The purpose of this study was to develop the simulated Lamb wave …

[HTML][HTML] The role of drying schedule and conditioning in moisture uniformity in wood: A machine learning approach

S Rahimi, V Nasir, S Avramidis, F Sassani - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Monitoring the moisture content (MC) of wood and avoiding large MC variation is a crucial
task as a large moisture spread after drying significantly devalues the product, especially in …

Predicting moisture content in kiln dried timbers using machine learning

S Rahimi, S Avramidis - European Journal of Wood and Wood Products, 2022 - Springer
The uniformity of final moisture content within a drying timber batch is crucial. Lack of such
uniformity leads to undesirable moisture ranges, thus producing large percentages of over …

Study of acoustic emission propagation characteristics and energy attenuation of surface transverse wave and internal longitudinal wave of wood

M Li, M Wang, R Ding, T Deng, S Fang, F Lai… - Wood Science and …, 2021 - Springer
To study the propagation characteristics and energy attenuation of different modal acoustic
emission signals in wood, Zelkova schneideriana and Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica were …

Characterization of the full complex-valued stiffness tensor of orthotropic viscoelastic plates using 3D guided wavefield data

AH Orta, M Kersemans, NB Roozen… - … Systems and Signal …, 2023 - Elsevier
A two-stage inversion scheme is proposed to determine the full set of 9 complex-valued
stiffness properties of orthotropic viscoelastic plates using their 3D surface velocity response …