EFFICIENT BASELINE GATHERING AND DAMAGE DETECTION IN GUIDED WAVE STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING

A. J. Croxford*, O. Putkis, P. D. Wilcox

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Abstract

Guided wave structural health monitoring (SHM) has been proposed as a technique to allow permanently attached sensors to provide information about the state of a structure. Typical approaches rely on gathering information about the baseline state of the structure and using this data with subtraction to highlight changes to the system. This relies on the baseline data accurately representing the conditions that the system will experience. In reality this is difficult to ensure and may result in either large periods out of service or poor performance. In addition the size of the baseline set can become prohibitively large. This paper describes an alternative approach that produces an efficient continuously evolving baseline. The paper considers how damage detection performance can be characterized within this framework and presents a series of metrics to do this. The result is a new way of considering the baseline problem with practical applications to the long term inspection of structures.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationREVIEW OF PROGRESS IN QUANTITATIVE NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION, VOLS 32A AND 32B
EditorsDO Thompson, DE Chimenti
Place of PublicationMELVILLE
PublisherAmerican Institute of Physics (AIP)
Pages262-269
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)978-0-7354-1129-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event39th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE 2012) - Denver, CO, United States
Duration: 15 Jul 201220 Jul 2012
Conference number: 39

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
PublisherAMER INST PHYSICS
Volume1511
ISSN (Print)0094-243X

Conference

Conference39th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE 2012)
Abbreviated titleQNDE 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDenver, CO
Period15/07/1220/07/12

Keywords

  • Guided Waves
  • Damage Detection
  • Sparse Arrays

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