Structural Health Monitoring 2006: Proceedings of the Third European Workshop

· 174 new and original technical and engineering presentations featuring intelligent materials, design strategies, and analysis · Critical new information on sensors, monitoring, prognosis, networking, and planning for safety and maintenance · Sponsored by the Ministerio Español de Educación y Ciencia, AIRBUS España, Boeing Research & Technology Centre in Europe, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Universidad de Granada, Ayuntamiento de Granada -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This new 1434-page book combines in one place; important new data and design strategies for monitoring and securing buildings, bridges, and aircraft. Comprising original papers from the third biennial European structural health conference, this text contains critical findings on structural engineering, sensors, and analytic techniques—with numerous case studies applying to many areas of civil and aeronautical engineering, e.g., Airbus, suspension bridges and much more. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS · New Technology Frontiers on Commercial Aircrafts · A New Look in Design of Intelligent Structures with SHM · The Multidisciplinary Approach to SHM · The Challenge of Long-Span Suspended Bridges · Towards Damage and Structural Health Monitoring of Aerospace Composite Structures using Optical Fiber Sensors MONITORING OF CIVIL STRUCTURES · Life-Cycle Assessment and Life Extension of Structures via Innovative Methods · Framework for the Optimization of Structural Health Monitoring on a Probabilistic Basis · Experimental Validation of Life Time Assessment of Existing Bridges by Means of Monitoring and Testing · Monitoring, Adaptive and Probabilistic Modelling of Chloride Ingress in Concrete Structures · Monitoring of Emissions and Mechanical Stability of Landfills · Modelling of Long-Term Landfill Behaviour · Novel Sensor Systems for Structural Health Monitoring · Structural Health Monitoring by In-Situ Materials Analysis · Monitoring of Tension Members of Civil Structures—New Concepts and Testing · Damage Evaluation and Crack Detection in Steel Structures using Lockin-Thermography · Detection of Structural Changes by Means of Piezo Discs · Life Cycle Assessment of Welded Components with Help of Nondestructive Testing Methods AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS · An Overview of the FLPP Technology Developments in Structures Health Monitoring for the European Next Generation Launcher · Damage Detection on Aerospace Structures: Last Developments at EADS · Flight Demonstration: Health Monitoring for Bonded Structural Repairs · Implementation of an Experimental System for Structural Health Monitoring in a Turboprop Commercial Aircraft · Structure Condition Monitoring with Passive Tags · Procedures for the Assessment of Structural Health Monitoring Potentials · Evaluation of Crack and Corrosion Detection Sensitivity using Piezoelectric Sensor Arrays · A High Resolution Health Monitoring System for Bonded Composite Repairs using a Spatially Sparse Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor Net · A Development and Application Test of Brillouin Scattering Sensing Method for Aircraft Structural Health Monitoring · Damage Growth Detection of Aircraft Bonding Structure under Cyclic Loading using FBG/PZT Hybrid Sensor System · SHM with Embedded Fibre Bragg Gratings and Piezoelectric Devices · Monitoring of Interfacial Crack Growth of Stiffened Panel with Embedded Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors · Advanced Phased Array System for Structural Damage Detection · Nonlinear Vibro-Acoustic Modulation Technique for Life Prediction of Aging Aircraft Components · Global Crack Detection for Aircraft Mon