Methods for monitoring structural health conditions

Data processing: measuring – calibrating – or testing – Measurement system – Performance or efficiency evaluation

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C340S870150

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ABSTRACT:
Methods and recordable media for monitoring structural health conditions. The present invention provides a method for interrogating a damage of a host structure using a diagnostic network patch (DNP) system having patches. An interrogation module partitions the plurality of patched in subgroups and measures the sensor signals generated and received by actuator and sensor patches, respectively. Then, a process module loads sensor signal data to identify Lamb wave modes, determine the time of arrival of the modes and generate a tomographic image. It also determines distribution of other structural condition indices to generate tomographic images of the host structure. A set of tomographic images can be stacked to generate a hyperspectral tomography cube. A classification module generates codebook based on K-mean/Learning Vector Quantization algorithm and uses a neural-fuzzy-inference system to determine the type of damages of the host structure.

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