Structural health monitoring using piezoelectric materials

With an expanding population world widely, demanding for safer buildings and infrastructure lead to a closer attention to structural health monitoring (SHM) method. Engineers discover the sensitivity of PZT transducer has been a promising and cost-effective choice as the sensor of SHM due to its var...

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Main Author: Hu, Yang
Other Authors: Yang Yaowen
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Language:English
Published: 2014
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-612292019-12-10T11:37:51Z Structural health monitoring using piezoelectric materials Hu, Yang Yang Yaowen School of Civil and Environmental Engineering DRNTU::Engineering With an expanding population world widely, demanding for safer buildings and infrastructure lead to a closer attention to structural health monitoring (SHM) method. Engineers discover the sensitivity of PZT transducer has been a promising and cost-effective choice as the sensor of SHM due to its various advantages. In this study, a small PZT patch is bonded to a specimen of steel plate, and connected with an impedance analyzer to monitor any changes in the structure due to a change in tensile stress. The experimental results are later analyzed via different methods to establish reliable pattern recognition to detect the changes in loadings and damages. Numerical modeling of specimen is also carried out using ANASYS software under finite elements method. The results obtained from analytical study showed a close agreement with experimental results. From this comparison, one can say that PZT transducer is only capable of detecting a mode shape in various behaviors exhibited at different values of natural frequencies. Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) 2014-06-06T05:53:41Z 2014-06-06T05:53:41Z 2014 2014 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/61229 en Nanyang Technological University 85 p. application/msword
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Structural health monitoring using piezoelectric materials
description With an expanding population world widely, demanding for safer buildings and infrastructure lead to a closer attention to structural health monitoring (SHM) method. Engineers discover the sensitivity of PZT transducer has been a promising and cost-effective choice as the sensor of SHM due to its various advantages. In this study, a small PZT patch is bonded to a specimen of steel plate, and connected with an impedance analyzer to monitor any changes in the structure due to a change in tensile stress. The experimental results are later analyzed via different methods to establish reliable pattern recognition to detect the changes in loadings and damages. Numerical modeling of specimen is also carried out using ANASYS software under finite elements method. The results obtained from analytical study showed a close agreement with experimental results. From this comparison, one can say that PZT transducer is only capable of detecting a mode shape in various behaviors exhibited at different values of natural frequencies.
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title Structural health monitoring using piezoelectric materials
title_short Structural health monitoring using piezoelectric materials
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title_full_unstemmed Structural health monitoring using piezoelectric materials
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