Energy harvesting is one of the most promising research areas to produce sustainable
power sources from the ambient environment. Which found applications to attain the …

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 …

Recently, there has been a growing interest in deploying smart materials as sensing
components of structural health monitoring systems. In this arena, piezoelectric materials …

From last few decades, piezoelectric materials have played a vital role as a mechanism of
energy harvesting, as they have the tendency to absorb energy from the environment and …

Lamb wave-based SHM technology for damage detection and localization in plate-like
structures has typically relied on post-processing of ultrasonic guided waves. Traditionally …

In this paper, some recent piezoelectric wafer active sensors (PWAS) progress achieved in
our laboratory for active materials and smart structures (LAMSS) at the University of South …

The damage identification process provides relevant information about the current state of a
structure under inspection, and it can be approached from two different points of view. The …

The dispersion effect of Lamb waves can cause different degree of phase distortion of array
signals, which will make the classical multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm no …

Ultrasonic guided waves have been used successfully in structural health monitoring
systems to detect damage in isotropic and composite materials with simple and complex …

Acoustic emission (AE) is often used for structural health monitoring (SHM) in the wide field
of engineering structures and one of its most beneficial attributes is the ability to localize the …