Optimal sensor placement for active guided wave interrogation of complex metallic components

Clyde K. Coelho; Seung Bum Kim; Aditi Chattopadhyay

doi:10.1117/12.880288

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18 April 2011 Optimal sensor placement for active guided wave interrogation of complex metallic components

Clyde K. Coelho, Seung Bum Kim, Aditi Chattopadhyay

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Proceedings Volume 7981, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2011; 79813O (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.880288
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2011, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

With research in structural health monitoring (SHM) moving towards increasingly complex structures for damage interrogation, the placement of sensors is becoming a key issue in the performance of the damage detection methodologies. For ultrasonic wave based approaches, this is especially important because of the sensitivity of the travelling Lamb waves to material properties, geometry and boundary conditions that may obscure the presence of damage if they are not taken into account during sensor placement. The framework proposed in this paper defines a sensing region for a pair of piezoelectric transducers in a pitch-catch damage detection approach by taking into account the material attenuation and probability of false alarm. Using information about the region interrogated by a sensoractuator pair, a simulated annealing optimization framework was implemented in order to place sensors on complex metallic geometries such that a selected minimum damage type and size could be detected with an acceptable probability of false alarm anywhere on the structure. This approach was demonstrated on a lug joint to detect a crack and on a large Naval SHM test bed and resulted in a placement of sensors that was able to interrogate all parts of the structure using the minimum number of transducers.

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Clyde K. Coelho, Seung Bum Kim, and Aditi Chattopadhyay "Optimal sensor placement for active guided wave interrogation of complex metallic components", Proc. SPIE 7981, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2011, 79813O (18 April 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.880288

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