Guided Lamb Wave Structural Health Monitoring Techniques for Aircraft Applications

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dc.contributor.advisorWereley, Norman Men_US
dc.contributor.authorMcCullum, Jacob Ryanen_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.accessioned2020-02-06T06:32:20Z
dc.date.available2020-02-06T06:32:20Z
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.description.abstractGrowing aerospace industry interest in structural health monitoring (SHM) has led to the development of many damage detection and localization techniques which make use of guided Lamb Waves (GLW). To continue this growth, further development of these techniques is necessary with an industry-focused mindset through studies with realistic, complex aircraft structures. The present study applies GLW techniques to two aircraft structures and examines the feasibility of their use for practical SHM applications. Particularly this work focuses on evaluating the effects of complex structural features found in aircraft, examining the human interaction with GLW techniques, and enhancing GLW techniques using nontraditional dual PZT transducers. Several damage case studies are performed showing that damage can be detected and located, and limitations to the techniques are characterized. Moreover, the use of dual PZT transducers shows improvements to damage localization techniques which potentially enable greater flexibility for aircraft applications.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/cjyq-8tpa
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/25507
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAerospace engineeringen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAircraften_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDual PZTen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledGuided Lamb Wavesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPiezoelectricsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledStructural Health Monitoringen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledUltrasonicsen_US
dc.titleGuided Lamb Wave Structural Health Monitoring Techniques for Aircraft Applicationsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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