Structural Health Monitoring

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Ranjan Ganguli

   Pages 1-5

3. Fuzzy Logic and Probability in Damage Detection

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   Pages 7-35

4. Modal Curvature Based Damage Detection

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   Pages 37-78

5. Damage Detection in Composite Plates

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   Pages 79-101

6. Damage Detection in Smart Composite Plates

   • Ranjan Ganguli

   Pages 103-126

7. Damage Growth Monitoring in Composite Plates

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   Pages 127-160

8. Wavelet Based Damage Detection

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   Pages 161-192

9. Fractal Dimension Based Damage Detection

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   Pages 193-214

This book discusses systems of damage detection and structural health monitoring in mechanical, civil, and aerospace structures. It utilizes principles of fuzzy logic, probability theory, and signal processing to develop systems and approaches that are robust in the presence of both noise in the data and variations in properties of materials which are intrinsic to the process of mass production. This volume will be useful to graduate students, researchers, and engineers working in this area, especially those looking to understand and address model uncertainty in their algorithms.   

• Damage Models
• Structural Health Monitoring
• Pattern Recognition
• Uncertainty
• Fuzzy Logic
• Fractals

• Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

  Ranjan Ganguli

Ranjan Ganguli is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Following his PhD in the University of Maryland at College Park, USA, he worked at the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center of the University of Maryland as an Assistant Research Scientist from 1994 to 1997 on projects on rotorcraft health monitoring and vibratory load validation for the Naval Surface Warfare Center and United Technology Research Center, respectively. He also worked at the GE Research Lab in Schenectady, New York, and at Pratt and Whitney, East Hartford, Connecticut, from 1997 to 2000. He has held visiting positions at TU Braunschweig, University of Ulm and Max Planck Institute of Metal Research, Stuttgart, in Germany; University Paul Sabatier and Institute of Mathematics, in Toulouse, France; Konkuk University in South Korea, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in USA, and the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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