Structural Integrity Monitoring

Enhanced Composites Integrity Through Structural Health Monitoring

This paper discusses the topic of how the integrity of safety-critical structural composites can be enhanced by the use of structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques. The paper starts with a presentation of how the certification of flight-critical composite structures can be achieved within the framework of civil aviation safety authority requirements. Typical composites damage mechanisms, w...

Structural integrity monitoring of onshore wind turbine concrete foundations

Technology Developments in Structural Health Monitoring and Integrity Maintenance

1School of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China 2School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China 3Medway School of Engineering, The University of Greenwich, Kent ME4 4TB, UK 4Department of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China 5School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 479...

Airborne Transducer Integrity under Operational Environment for Structural Health Monitoring

This paper investigates the robustness of permanently mounted transducers used in airborne structural health monitoring systems, when exposed to the operational environment. Typical airliners operate in a range of conditions, hence, structural health monitoring (SHM) transducer robustness and integrity must be demonstrated for these environments. A set of extreme temperature, altitude and vibra...

Structural Integrity and Moral Integrity

As engineers, a confliction readily appears in regards to cost efficiency against quality. Civil Engineer A of Peace Corps was assigned the task of the design and building of a desalination though electrodialysis plant in rural Uttar Pradesh, India. Desalination is the process of removing high salt contents from groundwater in order to render it drinkable. Of the total volume of water on Earth,...