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Structural Health Monitoring in aerospace and civil engineering supported with two ultrasonic NDT methods - AE and NEWS
Převorovský, Zdeněk ; Krofta, Josef ; Farová, Zuzana ; Chlada, Milan
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) becomes today an important technology improving reliability and safety of aeronautical and civil structures. Combining of two ultrasonic NDT methods - Acoustic Emission (AE) with Nonlinear Elastic Wave Spectroscopy (NEWS) - in SHM systems brings many advantages. AE enables real-time detection and localization of initiation and progression under operational stimulations, and NEWS methods provide retrieval of structural faults and complete information on AE sources. Examples of a complex SHM system design for critical parts of both aircraft and building roofs are discussed in this paper. The NEWS pseudo-tomography procedure, based on Time Reversal Mirrors (TRM) with Excitation Symmetry Analysis Method (ESAM), enabled zone-location of initiating defects, not detectable by other classical NDT procedures.Our results reflect good robustness of both techniques, and support their helpfulness in SHM of aircraft and building structures.
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Nondestructive evaluation of corrosion damage of Al-alloys by in-situ AE monitoring and nonlinear elastic wave spectroscopy testing
Kober, Jan ; Převorovský, Zdeněk
This work investigates the possibilities of monitoring ongoing corrosion process by acoustic emission (AE) and of determining overall corrosion damage by the nonlinear wave modulation spectroscopy method (NWMS). Specimens made of Al-alloy L-beams simulating stringer reinforcements of airplane structure were studied. The samples were repeatedly immersed in sea salt solution. The acoustic emission activity was recorded in situ during corrosion process. Nonlinear parameters of the samples were measured in between corrosion tests by NWMS method. The current dynamics of a corrosion process was determined by AE, the amount of corrosion damage was corresponding to the nonlinear parameters obtained by NWMS.
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Detection of AE Sources During Long-term Fatigue Tests of Riveted Aircraft Wing Flange
Chlada, Milan ; Převorovský, Zdeněk
Fracture is the primary threat to the integrity, safety, and performance of nearly all highly stressed mechanical structures, e.g., aircrafts, building units or pressure vessels. Contemporary exacting demands on reliability and safety of material structures are not realizable without effective means of NDT and continuous state monitoring. AE monitoring of structures needs new robust and fast methods for emission source location and classification. Recently proposed AE source location method using so-called signal arrival time profiles and artificial neural networks (ANN) was applied for monitoring of growing defects during long-term fatigue testing of riveted aircraft wing flange. The potentialities of the method regarding the on-line monitoring of dangerous crack growth in selected critical parts of aircraft structures are discussed.
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Experimental Signal Deconvolution in Acoustic Emission Identification Setup
Farová, Zuzana ; Převorovský, Zdeněk ; Kůs, V. ; Dos Santos, S.
Identification of acoustic sources is a great deal and the most important problem emerging in nondestructive testing. We present the basics of time reversal (TR) Acoustic Emission (AE) principle and point out the advantages of AE nondestructive testing for localization and classification of acoustic sources. This approach provides the tool for the defect localization by means of the reversal wave focusing in nonlinearity position in the material under consideration. Also, using TR operator to AE signal, we obtain convolutional signal in the closest neighborhood of acoustic source, which gives us the pure image of the real characteristics of AE source after deconvolution process applied to the signals detected.
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