Patent ID: 8046177

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of facilitating a determination of health of a structure, comprising: in a system including a plurality of transducers affixed to the structure so as to define one or more paths between pairs of the transducers, determining a probability of detection curve corresponding to probabilities that the plurality of transducers will detect differently sized damages to the structure,wherein the determining a probability of detection curve further comprises: A) determining a value k of a characteristic dimension for a possible damage; B) determining a number of locations N within a surface area defined by the plurality of transducers on the structure; C) determining a number n k of the determined locations at which the possible damage having the value k of the characteristic dimension intersects one or more of the paths; D) determining a probability of detection POD k =n k /N; E) successively incrementing k, and repeating B) through D) for each successively incremented value of k.