The interest in the propagation of ultrasound waves in pipe-like solid waveguides arises out of several areas of the structural health monitoring (SHM) community for the detection, localization and assessment of defects ...

Identification of outliers in samples from univariate and multivariate populations has received considerable attention over the past few decades. Presence of outliers has undeniable effects on the results of statistical ...

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems have been heavily studied worldwide in the past decades. In this field, extensive research has been carried out on vibration-based damage detection (VBDD) techniques in civil ...

For preserving existing structures to the extent possible, vibration-based damage detection techniques are gaining more attention. In specific, tracking the changes in a structure’s natural frequencies employing the Principal ...

This paper proposes a damage diagnosis strategy to detect and classify different type of damages in a laboratory offshore-fixed wind turbine model. The proposed method combines an accelerometer sensor network attached to ...

The maintenance of dams is crucial because of their social, environmental, and economic relevance. However, more than 40% of the world’s dams are more than 40 years old. Furthermore, because of their ageing, damage such ...

Damage evolution of notched composite laminates is analysed in this work using a discrete damage model, which estimates matrix damage evolution and fibre failure. The fibre damage is regularised with a Weibull distribution, ...

Yield losses in cucurbits have been reported in many horticultural regions. Zucchini-squash is an important crop in southern Spain accounting for one third of the production in the country. For sustainable management of ...

The damage identification process provides relevant information about the current state of a structure under inspection, and it can be approached from two different points of view. The first approach uses data-driven ...