Structural Health Monitoring of Polymer Composites
Résumé
Nondestructive testing (NDT) techniques are usually used for the characterization of defects arising in composite materials during manufacturing or during in-service use. NDT techniques such as ultrasonic waves, X-ray radiography, X-ray tomography, infrared thermography, and acoustic emission are the most commonly used in various industrial applications. Each of these NDT techniques has its own detection and characterization potential. Thus, depending on the damage mechanism involved, the part geometry, and the in-situ conditions of use, one technique may be preferred over another, or several techniques may be combined in order to improve the diagnosis of the damage state of composite structures and to allow a reliable monitoring of the material’s or component’s structural health in view of in-service performance assessment and residual durability prognosis.
This Special Issue welcomes papers on the latest advances and developments in nondestructive detection, characterization, and health monitoring of structural composite materials and composite structures. Suggested contributions may address materials, processing, sensing/monitoring, modeling/simulation, performance, or application issues, with either experimental or numerical approaches. Articles providing guidelines and drawing future perspectives on how the structural health monitoring of these materials could evolve in the digital era, taking advantage of artificial intelligence, data fusion, and big data, would also be highly appreciated.
Mots clés
Nondestructive testing
Structural health monitoring
Ultrasonic waves
X-ray radiography
X-ray tomography
Infrared thermography
Acoustic emission
Shearography
Digital image correlation
Terahertz imaging
Embedded sensors and actuators
Hybrid nondestructive characterization
Data fusion
Defect detection and characterization
Damage evaluation
Residual lifetime prediction
Predictive maintenance
Advanced composites
Polymer composites
Composite structures
Composites
Composite materials