A review of structural health monitoring methods for composite materials - ScienceDirect
Health monitoring techniques with regard to structural assessment has the attention of researchers worldwide owing to their potential in providing crucial information regarding structural damage and the reassurance of expected performance of critical infrastructures during service. These must operate with optimal system performance and against natural hazards. Such systems utilize state of the art sensing networks. The still high costs linked to the application of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) does dictate that they are mainly incorporated to structures of high value. It can be expected that composite materials are increasingly utilized in such applications. The main difficulty posed by their use is that their failure mechanisms are much more complex......
