Improving Accessibility of the Impedance-Based Structural Health Monitoring Method

By D. Peairs, Gyuhae Park, Daniel J. Inman. 2004

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Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials

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Structural Health Monitoring by Piezo–Impedance Transducers. II: Applications (2004, methodology): “Currently, low-cost and portable versions of impedance analyzer are under development (Peairs et al. 2003), which will make the technique even more economical in the near future.”
Overview of Piezoelectric Impedance-Based Health Monitoring and Path Forward (2003, methodology): “Peairs et al. (2002b) also utilize the self-impedance and transfer-impedance to construct FRFs of a bolted joint.”
Application of Electromechanical Impedance Technique for Engineering Structures: Review and Future Issues (2010, unknown): “This was again a step ahead of previously developed strain measuring technique (Peairs et al., 2004a,b).”
Bolt loosening analysis and diagnosis by non-contact laser excitation vibration tests (2013, background): “Several approaches have been investigated in regard to the detection of loosening in bolted joints, especially those using impedance [7,8], electrical conductivity [9], and vibration measurements [10].”
A Review of the Piezoelectric Electromechanical Impedance Based Structural Health Monitoring Technique for Engineering Structures (2018, methodology): “I pe ance easuring evice: (a) circuit for approxi ating i pe ance [18]; (b) photo of 5933 evaluation board.”
Structural health monitoring for a wind turbine system: a review of damage detection methods (2008, methodology): “This method has been shown to be effective in detecting damage in various structures including composite structures [63, 64].”
Electromechanical impedance of piezoelectric transducers for monitoring metallic and non-metallic structures: A review of wired, wireless and energy-harvesting methods (2013, methodology): “Peairs et al. (2004) developed a novel low-cost and portable version of impedance analyzer, the major hardware used in the EMI technique, paving the way for cost reduction of hardware.”
A Review of Electric Impedance Matching Techniques for Piezoelectric Sensors, Actuators and Transducers (2019, methodology): “Time domain methods can also be used for this task [115,116].”