This review focuses mainly on the developments of element-free or meshless methods and
their applications in the analysis of composite structures. This review is organized as follows …

Bolted structures are widely utilized in industrial structures and equipment due to the
numerous advantages they possess. However, the use of bolts in these structures by itself …

The structural health monitoring (SHM) of structures is acquiring a key role in the present
time. An in situ system able to assess the health state of bolted joints would save money and …

This paper presents a new in situ Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system able to identify
the location of acoustic emission (AE) sources due to low-velocity impacts and to determine …

This work is considered as the first comprehensive review, that covers all types of meshfree
method including the traditional or developed meshless techniques that have been …

Abstract Previously, a two-dimensional (2-D) analytical model for interpreting the modulation
mechanism of a “breathing” crack on guided ultrasonic waves (GUWs) is developed [1] …

The objective of this work was to image the presence of impact damage by monitoring the
nonlinear response of damaged carbon/epoxy composite samples. The presence of …

This paper presents an angle sensor based on a sector ring patch antenna (SRPA) for loose
bolt detection. The sensor is comprised of two parts, a ring substrate sandwiched between a …

A nodal discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DG-FEM) to solve the linear and
nonlinear elastic wave equation in heterogeneous media with arbitrary high order accuracy …

Environmental factors such as temperature and humidity influence the efficacy of defect
imaging procedures based on the identification of changes between an intact state and the …