ORCID iD
Giurgiutiu, Victor
0000-0001-8948-677X
Haider, Mohammad Faisal
0000-0003-4814-1673
Migot, Asaad
0000-0002-6760-7718
Mei, Hanfei
0000-0002-8921-494X
Document Type
Article
Abstract
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 Carolina: http: //www.me.sc.edu/research/lamss/ group is presented. First, the characterization of the PWAS materials shows that no significant change in the microstructure after exposure to high temperature and nuclear radiation, and the PWAS transducer can be used in harsh environments for structural health monitoring (SHM) applications. Next, PWAS active sensing of various damage types in aluminum and composite structures are explored. PWAS transducers can successfully detect the simulated crack and corrosion damage in aluminum plates through the wavefield analysis, and the simulated delamination damage in composite plates through the damage imaging method. Finally, the novel use of PWAS transducers as acoustic emission (AE) sensors for in situ AE detection during fatigue crack growth is presented. The time of arrival of AE signals at multiple PWAS transducers confirms that the AE signals are originating from the crack, and that the amplitude decay due to geometric spreading is observed.
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Publication Info
Published in Sensors, Volume 19, Issue 2, 2019, pages 383-.
© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
APA Citation
Mei, H., Haider, M., Joseph, R., Migot, A., & Giurgiutiu, V. (2019). Recent Advances in Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring Applications. Sensors, 19(2), 383 https://doi.org/10.3390/s19020383.
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© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).