Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) denotes a system with the ability to detect and interpret adverse changes in structures in order to improve reliability and reduce life-cycle costs. The greatest challenge for designing ...

Vibration-based damage assessment approaches use modal parameters, such as frequency response functions, mode shapes, and natural frequencies, as indicators of structural damage. Nevertheless, these parameters are sensitive ...

In this work, a novel electrochemical biosensor has been fabricated based on step-by-step modification of aglassy carbon electrode (GCE) with methylene blue (MB)-DNA/multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)-chitosan (CS)/palladium ...

This paper proposes a strategy to avoid false alarms by distinguishing operation effects from damages effects in composite laminates. This strategy is based on active and sensing piezoelectric patches receiving Lamb waves ...

Model-based damage assessment is based on measuring the distance between experimental and analytical results. In practice, measurements yield only partial mode shapes with respect to the total degrees of freedom present ...

This paper proposes a new method to detect damages in structures vibrating with nonlinear behavior. The approach proposed is based on Volterra series and can separate the linear and nonlinear contributions of the responses. ...