Abstract: The use of statistical methods for anomaly detection has become of interest to researchers in many subject areas. Structural health monitoring in particular has benefited from the versatility ...

Abstract: This paper presents experimental evidence on the use of the impedance-based health-monitoring technique on components typical of civil structures. The basic principle behind this technique is to utilize high-frequency ...

Abstract: This paper presents a piezoelectric sensor self-diagnostic procedure that performs in situ monitoring of the operational status of piezoelectric materials used for sensors and actuators in structural ...

Abstract: The machining process is very important in many engineering applications. In high precision machining, surface finish is strongly correlated with vibrations and the dynamic interactions between ...

Abstract: In this paper, time domain data from piezoelectric active-sensing techniques is utilized for structural health monitoring (SHM) applications. Piezoelectric transducers have been increasingly used ...

Abstract: This paper reviews the development of energy harvesting for low-power embedded structural health monitoring (SHM) sensing systems. A statistical pattern recognition paradigm for SHM is first presented and the concept of ...