Saqlain Abbas^1,2, Zulkarnain Abbas^3,4,*, Yanping Zhu², Waqas Tariq Toor⁵, Xiaotong Tu⁶

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.16, No.4, pp. 307-321, 2022, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2022.015266

Abstract In the previous couple of decades, techniques to reap energy and empower low voltage electronic devices have received outstanding attention. Most of the methods based on the piezoelectric effect to harvest the energy from ambient vibrations have been revolutionized. There’s an absence of experiment-based investigation which incorporates the microstructure analysis and crystal morphology of those energy harvest home materials. Moreover, the impact of variable mechanical and thermal load conditions has seldom been studied within the previous literature to utilize the effectiveness of those materials in several practical applications like structural health monitoring (SHM), etc. In the proposed research work, scanning… More >

Saqlain Abbas^1,2,*, Fucai Li¹, Zulkarnain Abbas^3,4, Taufeeq Ur Rehman Abbasi⁵, Xiaotong Tu⁶, Riffat Asim Pasha⁷

Sound & Vibration, Vol.55, No.1, pp. 1-18, 2021, DOI:10.32604/sv.2021.013754

Abstract Structural health monitoring (SHM) is recognized as an efficient tool to interpret the reliability of a wide variety of infrastructures. To identify the structural abnormality by utilizing the electromechanical coupling property of piezoelectric transducers, the electromechanical impedance (EMI) approach is preferred. However, in real-time SHM applications, the monitored structure is exposed to several varying environmental and operating conditions (EOCs). The previous study has recognized the temperature variations as one of the serious EOCs that affect the optimal performance of the damage inspection process. In this framework, an experimental setup is developed in current research to identify the presence of fatigue… More >

Vincenzo Gulizzi^1,2, Piervincenzo Rizzo^2,3, Alberto Milazzo⁴

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.10, No.1, pp. 19-54, 2014, DOI:10.3970/sdhm.2014.010.019

Abstract The electromechanical impedance (EMI) method is one of the many nondestructive evaluation approaches proposed for the health monitoring of aerospace, civil, and mechanical structures. The method consists of attaching or embedding one or more wafer-type piezoelectric transducers (PZTs) to the system of interest, the host structure, and measuring certain electrical characteristics of the transducers. As these characteristics are also related to the impedance of the host structure, they can be used to infer the mechanical properties of the monitored structure. In the study presented in this paper, we utilize the EMI to monitor the quality of adhesively bonded joints. A… More >

A. Likhith Reddy¹, Shirleen Charles¹, C. Bharathi Priya², G.V. Rama Rao², N. Gopalakrishnan^3,4 , A. Rama Mohan Rao³

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.9, No.4, pp. 325-347, 2013, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2013.009.325

Abstract Details of the investigations on an unexplored application of Electro Mechanical Impedance (EMI) technique using smart piezoelectric (PZT) sensors for damage detection of concrete shear wall structures under crack opening and closing is presented in this paper. The behavior and the ability of this method to detect damages, in a heterogeneous quasi-brittle material is studied for its effective utilization in structural health monitoring. The paper discusses the experimental investigations conducted on a concrete shear wall using PZT patches. Conductance data is acquired at different applied lateral displacements of shear wall. Damage index is calculated using Root Mean Square Deviation (RMSD),… More >