Structural Health Monitoring Using High-Frequency Electromechanical Impedance Signatures
An overview of recent advances in electromechanical impedance- (EMI-) based structural health monitoring is presented in this paper. The basic principle of the EMI method is to use high-frequency excitation to sense the local area of a structure. Changes in impedance indicate changes in the structur...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2010-01-01
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Series: | Advances in Civil Engineering |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/429148 |
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Summary: | An overview of recent advances in electromechanical impedance- (EMI-) based structural health monitoring is presented in this paper. The basic principle of the EMI method is to use high-frequency excitation to sense the local area of a structure. Changes in impedance indicate changes in the structure, which in turn indicate that damages appear. An accurate EMI model based on the method of reverberation-ray matrix is introduced to correlate changes in the signatures to physical parameters of structures for damage detection. Comparison with other numerical results and experimental data validates the present model. A brief remark of the feasibility of implementing the EMI method is considered and the effects of some physical parameters on EMI technique are also discussed. |
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ISSN: | 1687-8086 1687-8094 |