Structural Health Monitoring with Ultrasonic Guided-Waves Sensors
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 7886
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Electronic design for transport and structure monitoring
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over recent decades, structure health monitoring (SHM) techniques have flourished. Many researchers have developed sensors for various technologies as well as signal processing algorithms to detect damage in various structures, such as metal, composite, and concrete.
Nowadays, SHM techniques are successfully applied to bridges and other civil structures. However, the main challenge of these techniques remains their application to other kinds of structures, such as aircraft and wind-power generators. SHM based on guided waves is the most promising technology for these kinds of applications because of its low weight, small size, low power consumption, and low cost.
This Special Issue focuses on SHM with Ultrasonic Guided Wave Sensors and is open to high-quality original research papers and state-of-the-art reviews from a wide range of authors, including scholars, researchers, and academicians. We anticipate that this Special Issue will create opportunities for further research and technological improvements in this important area.
Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Sensors for ultrasonic guided waves-based SHM;
- Sensors for acoustic emission;
- Integration of different sensor technologies in SHM systems;
- Sensor manufacturing technologies;
- Positioning and maintenance of sensors in SHM systems;
- Multiple sensor networking: multiple emitting transducers, phased-array;
- Propagation of guided waves in different materials: metal, composite;
- SHM systems with multiple emission and/or reception of guided waves;
- Damage detection algorithms;
- Full-scale structural monitoring applications such as, for instance, in wind turbines or the aircraft manufacturing industry;
- Systems for detection of delamination, fatigue, impacts, or other damages;
- Industry 4.0: sensing and monitoring of structures throughout their life cycle;
- Prognosis of the life cycle of structures;
- Hardware circuits for ultrasonic guided wave sensors in SHM applications.
Prof. Dr. Gerardo Aranguren
Dr. Josu Etxaniz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- structural health monitoring
- ultrasonic guided waves
- damage detection algorithm
- piezoelectric transducer
- wave propagation
