On the nondestructive testing, not only detection but also sizing of crack is desirable because the crack depth is one of the most important parameter to evaluate the impact of the crack to the material, to estimate crack growth and ultimately to predict lifetime of the component. Moreover, accurate measurement of the crack depth optimizes countermeasures and timing of repairs, and eventually r...

We present Surface Crack Antenna Reflectometric Sensing or SCARS: a chipless RFID sensor that enables pervasive, wireless surface crack detection in structural materials. We outline the sensor design and demonstrate how crack length and orientation can be uniquely related to the backscatter signal signature of the SCARS sensor. In doing so, design techniques that improve sensor sensitivity and ...

Rotor crack detection method by using multi-vibration signals gathered at the basements is presented in this paper. The finite element software ANSYS is applied for analyzing the vibration response characteristics of the basement to determine sensor configuration. Feature fusion for time-domain statistics of multiple sensors is performed by using the support vector machine to diagnose the depth...

The phenomenon of fatigue in gears at the tooth root can be a cause of catastrophic failure if not detected in time. Where traditional low-frequency vibration may help in detecting a well-developed crack or a completely failed tooth, a system for early detection of the nucleation and initial propagation of a fatigue crack can be of great use in condition monitoring. Acoustic emission is a poten...

Additive manufactured components have a different metallurgic structure and are more prone to fatigue cracks than conventionally produced metals. In earlier papers, an effective Structural Health Monitoring solution was presented to detect fatigue cracks in additive manufactured components. Small subsurface capillaries are embedded in the structure and pressurized (vacuum or overpressure). A cr...

To perform crack propagation in a solid model, a high computational power is required, mainly at three-dimensional mesh generation and structural analysis steps. At each crack propagation step, the mesh is rebuilt and a new structural analysis is performed. If a large scale cracked model is being analyzed, time consumed by mesh generation and analysis may be extremely large or even prohibitive ...

In this investigation a suitable algorithm for the detection of cracks in the pressure vessels is presented. The equations of motion for the vessel are obtained and transferred into the wavelet space in a simplified form resulted from time and position approximations. The locations of cracks are randomly distributed in different regions of the structure to cover the whole geometry of the pressu...