The potential of highly non-linear systems in engineering structures - operating applications in civil aircraft and chemical installations KU Leuven
For the detection of structural damage, sensors in traditional non-destructive testing (NDT) are usually working in a quasi-linear mode, i.e. there is essentially a smooth relationship between damage size and sensor output. Therefore, when sensing devices are permanently embedded in engineering structures as Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems, the performance is limited by baseline variations and by complicate signals arising from ...