Health Monitoring of the Aircraft Structure during a Full Scale Fatigue Test with Use of an Active Piezoelectric Sensor Network

The paper presents an approach to develop a system for fatigue crack growth monitoring and early damage detection in the PZL – 130 ORLIK TC II turbo-prop military trainer aircraft structure. The system functioning is based on elastic waves propagation excited in the structure by piezoelectric PZT tr...

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Published inSolid state phenomena Vol. 220-221; pp. 328 - 332
Main Authors Dziendzikowski, Michal, Kurnyta, Artur, Klysz, Sylwester, Dragan, Krzysztof, Leski, Andrzej
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Zurich Trans Tech Publications Ltd 2015
Subjects
Piezoelectric Sensors Networks
Fatigue Cracks Detection
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)
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Summary:The paper presents an approach to develop a system for fatigue crack growth monitoring and early damage detection in the PZL – 130 ORLIK TC II turbo-prop military trainer aircraft structure. The system functioning is based on elastic waves propagation excited in the structure by piezoelectric PZT transducers. In the paper, a built block approach for the system design, signal processing as well as damage detection is presented. Description of damage detection capabilities are delivered in the paper and some issues concerning the proposed signal processing methods and their application to crack growth estimation models are discussed. Selected preliminary results obtained during the Full Scale Fatigue Test thus far are also presented.
Bibliography:Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 9th International Conference on Mechatronic Systems and Materials (MSM 2013), July 1-3, 2013, Vilnius, Lithuania
ISSN:1012-0394
1662-9779
1662-9779
DOI:10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.220-221.328