Non-invasive damage detection in composite beams using marker extraction and wavelets

Yi-Zhe Song; Chris Bowen; H. Alicia Kim; Aydin Nassehi; Julian Padget; Nick Gathercore; Andrew Dent

doi:10.1117/12.880055

18 April 2011 Non-invasive damage detection in composite beams using marker extraction and wavelets

Yi-Zhe Song, Chris Bowen, H. Alicia Kim, Aydin Nassehi, Julian Padget, Nick Gathercore, Andrew Dent

Proceedings Volume 7983, Nondestructive Characterization for Composite Materials, Aerospace Engineering, Civil Infrastructure, and Homeland Security 2011; 79830R (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.880055
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2011, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Simple and contactless methods for determining the health of metallic and composite structures are necessary to allow non-invasive Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) of damaged structures. Many recognized damage detection techniques, such as frequency shift, generalized fractal dimension and wavelet transform, have been described with the aim to identify, locate damage and determine the severity of damage. These techniques are often tailored for factors such as (i) type of material, (ii) damage patterns (crack, impact damage, delamination), and (iii) nature of input signals (space and time). In this paper, a wavelet-based damage detection framework that locates damage on cantilevered composite beams via NDE using computer vision technologies is presented. Two types of damage have been investigated in this research: (i) defects induced by removing material to reduce stiffness in a metallic beam and (ii) manufactured delaminations in a composite laminate. The novelty in the proposed approach is the use of bespoke computer vision algorithms for the contactless acquisition of modal shapes, a task that is commonly regarded as a barrier to practical damage detection. Using the proposed method, it is demonstrated that modal shapes of cantilever beams can be readily reconstructed by extracting markers using Hough Transform from images captured using conventional slow motion cameras. This avoids the need to use expensive equipment such as laser doppler vibrometers. The extracted modal shapes are then used as input for a wavelet transform damage detection, exploiting both discrete and continuous variants. The experimental results are verified using finite element models (FEM).

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Yi-Zhe Song, Chris Bowen, H. Alicia Kim, Aydin Nassehi, Julian Padget, Nick Gathercore, and Andrew Dent "Non-invasive damage detection in composite beams using marker extraction and wavelets", Proc. SPIE 7983, Nondestructive Characterization for Composite Materials, Aerospace Engineering, Civil Infrastructure, and Homeland Security 2011, 79830R (18 April 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.880055

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