FATIGUE DAMAGE IDENTIFICATION IN COMPOSITE STRUCTURES THROUGH ULTRASONICS AND WAVELET TRANSFORM SIGNAL PROCESSING

Autor: V. La Saponara, W. Lestari, C. Winkelmann, L. Arronche, H.-Y. Tang, Donald O. Thompson, Dale E. Chimenti
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: AIP Conference Proceedings.
ISSN: 0094-243X
DOI: 10.1063/1.3592037
Popis: This is an investigation on the damage behavior of fiberglass/epoxy specimens with embedded piezoelectrics under axial tensile fatigue. The specimen’s local and global damage states are complicated by the specimen’s own stretching under loading, which varies as a function of damage. A signal processing technique based on wavelet transforms is presented: denoised signals are processed with Gabor wavelet transforms, and the area of one of the contours is tracked throughout the fatigue life.
Databáze: OpenAIRE