Structural Health Monitoring with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors

Structural Health Monitoring with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors provides an authoritative theoretical and experimental guide to this fast-paced, interdisciplinary area with exciting applications across a range of industries. The book begins with a detailed yet digestible consolidation of the fundamental theory relating to structural health monitoring (SHM). Coverage of fracture and failure basics, relevant material properties, vibration modes in different structures and different wave types provides all the background needed to understand SHM and apply it to real-world structural challenges. Moving from theory to experimental practice, the book goes on to provide the most comprehensive coverage available on using piezoelectric wafer active sensors (PWAS) to detect and quantify damage in structures. Updates to this edition include a new chapter on composite materials and new sections on vibration of 1-D composite structures, axial vibration of rectangular plates, shear waves in plates, PWAS stress and strain sensors, and the power and energy of Rayleigh waves, SH waves and Lamb waves. Comprehensive coverage of underlying theory such as piezoelectricity, vibration and wave propagation alongside experimental techniques helps researchers, engineers and students to develop a rounded understanding of this exciting interdisciplinary. Includes step-by-step guidance on the use of piezoelectric wafer active sensors (PWAS) to detect and quantify damage in structures, including clear information on how to interpret sensor signal patterns. Updates to this edition include a new chapter on composites and new sections on advances in vibration and wave theory, bringing this established reference in line with the cutting-edge in this still emerging area. INDICE: 1. Introduction 2. Electroactive and Magnetoactive Materials 3. Composite Materials (new chapter) 4. Vibration of Solids and Structures (including new section on vibration of 1-D composite structures) 5. Vibration of Plates (including new sections on axial vibration of rectangular plates and vibration of composite plates) 6. Elastic Waves in Solids and Structures (including new sections on 1-D waves in composite structures, shear waves    in plates, and waves in composite plates) 7. Guided Waves (including new sections on power and energy of Rayleigh waves, SH waves and Lamb waves, and guided waves in composite plates) 8. Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors (including new section on PWAS stress and strain sensors) 9. Tuned Waves Generated with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors (significant updates and new sections) 10. High-Frequency Vibration SHM with PWAS Modal Sensors - the Electromechanical Impedance Method (some updates) 11. Wave Propagation SHM with PWAS 12. In-Situ Phased Arrays with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors (significant updates) 13. Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition for PWAS-based Structural Health Monitoring Appendix A Mathematical Prerequisites Appendix B Elasticity Notations and Equations Bibliography Index

• ISBN: 978-0-12-418691-0
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 800
• Fecha Publicación: 12/08/2014
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés