The Hilbert-Huang Transform for Damage Detection in Plate Structures

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dc.contributor.advisorPines, Darryllen_US
dc.contributor.authorZemmour, Arnaud Isaacen_US
dc.contributor.departmentAerospace Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2006-09-12T05:51:47Z
dc.date.available2006-09-12T05:51:47Z
dc.date.issued2006-08-07en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis investigates the detection of structural damage in plate structures using the empirical mode decomposition method along with the Hilbert spectral analysis. In recent years there have been an extensive amount of research associated with the development of health monitoring methods for aerospace systems, such as aging aircraft and Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) for rotorcraft. The method developed here exploits a new time-frequency signal processing analysis tool, the Hilbert-Huang transform, along with the Lamb wave propagation for thin plates. With the use of the wave reflections from discontinuities, damage identification methods were developed to determine the presence, location and extent of damage in isotropic and composite plate structures. The ability of the empirical mode decomposition to extract embedded oscillations, to reveal hidden reflections in the data and to provide a high-resolution energy-time-frequency spectrum is used to describe the Lamb waves interactions with various damaged regions.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/3832
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEngineering, Aerospaceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledEmpirical mode decompositionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledstructural health monitoring;en_US
dc.titleThe Hilbert-Huang Transform for Damage Detection in Plate Structuresen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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