@inproceedings{d5b9bddea8ba4a29a904bc6835d5d7df,
title = "PVDF array sensor for Lamb wave reception: Aircraft structural health monitoring",
abstract = "Fracture critical structures need structural health monitoring (SHM) to improve safety and reliability as well as reduce downtime and maintenance costs. Lamb waves provide promising techniques for on-line SHM systems because of their large volumetric coverage and good sensitivity to defects. Extensive research has focused on using features derived from time signals obtained at sparse locations distributed across the structure. Commonly used features are wave amplitude, energy, and time of arrival. However, the modal content of received Lamb waves contains valuable information about the existence and characteristics of defects, but cannot be determined from these signal features. Wave scattering at a defect often results in mode conversions in both transmitted and reflected waves. Features like change in time of arrival or amplitude reduction can be interpreted as being a result of mode conversion. This work is focused on the design of a 1D array sensor such that received wave signals at equally spaced locations are available for modal analysis in the wavenumber-frequency domain. PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride) is selected as the active material of the sensor because of its low interference with wave fields in structures. The PVDF array sensor is fabricated to have 16 independent channels and its capability to detect and characterize different types of defects is demonstrated experimentally.",
author = "Baiyang Ren and Lissenden, {Cliff J.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 AIP Publishing LLC.; 42nd Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, QNDE 2015, Incorporating the 6th European-American Workshop on Reliability of NDE ; Conference date: 26-07-2015 Through 31-07-2015",
year = "2016",
month = feb,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1063/1.4940483",
language = "English (US)",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Inc.",
editor = "Bond, {Leonard J.} and Chimenti, {Dale E.}",
booktitle = "42nd Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation",
}