New Trends in Structural Health Monitoring
By: edited by Wieslaw Ostachowicz, J. Alfredo Güemes
Contributors: Güemes, J. Alfredo; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences -- 542
Publisher: Springer Vienna; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Vienna
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9783709113905
Subjects: Building materials; Structural analysis (Engineering); Mechanical engineering; Engineering; Building Repair and Maintenance; Materials; Astronautics; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
Description: Experts actively working in structural health monitoring and control techniques present the current research, areas of application and tendencies for the future of this technology, including various design issues involved. Examples using some of the latest hardware and software tools, experimental data from small scale laboratory demonstrators and measurements made on real structures illustrate the book. It will be a reference for professionals and students in the areas of engineering, applied natural sciences and engineering management.
Table of contents: title: A motivation for structural health monitoring; title: Structural health monitoring of aircraft structures; title: Vibration-based damage diagnosis and monitoring of external loads; title: Statistical time series methods for vibration based structural health monitoring; title: Fiber optic sensors; title: Damage localisation using elastic waves propagation methods experimental techniques; title: Application for wind turbine blades.