Structural Health Monitoring Systems: Comparison
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Structural health monitoring (SHM) is a rapidly evolving field, and there is a vast literature covering several topics that are related to this field. This entry is focused on the analysis of the state of the art of sensors for guided ultrasonic waves for the detection and localization of impacts for structural health monitoring (SHM).

  • structural health monitoring (SHM)
  • acoustic emission
  • guided waves
  • Lamb waves
  • sensors
  • ultrasound
  • piezoelectric
  • composites
  • piezopolymers
  • PVDF
  • interdigital transducer (IDT)
  • PWAS
  • CMUT
  • mems
  • analog electronic front end
  • analog signal processing
  • impact localizati
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