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Mengyuan Zeng, Hongduo Zhao, Kedi Peng, Zeying Bian and Difei Wu
This paper presents a method to assess the load transfer efficiency (LTE) of concrete pavement joints using distributed optical vibration sensors. First, a theoretical analysis of concrete pavement vibration was conducted to investigate how to reflect LT...
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Ángel Encalada-Dávila, Lenín Pardo, Yolanda Vidal, Efraín Terán and Christian Tutivén
Structural health monitoring (SHM) systems are designed to continually monitor the health of structures (e.g., civil, aeronautic) by using the information collected through a distributed sensor network. However, performing tests on real structures, such ...
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Theresa Loss and Alexander Bergmann
Monitoring the structural health of wind turbine blades is essential to increase energy capture and operational safety of turbines, and therewith enhance competitiveness of wind energy. With the current trends of designing blades ever longer, detailed kn...
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Chang-Yull Lee, Jin-Young Jung and Se-Min Jeong
Transient responses of stiffened panels with piezoelectric sensors and actuators are studied under normal blast loads. The air vehicles could be exposed to blast pulses generated by an explosion or shock-wave disturbances. Thus, active vibration suppress...
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Massimo Leonardo Filograno, Christos Riziotis and Maria Kandyla
The design, development, and testing of a low-cost phase optical time-domain reflectometry (Phase-OTDR) system, intended for use in structural health monitoring (SHM) applications, are presented. Phase-OTDR is a technology that is growing and evolving at...
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Ben De Pauw, Graham Kennedy, Katrien Van Tichelen, Thomas Geernaert, Hugo Thienpont and Francis Berghmans
Excessive vibration of nuclear reactor components, such as the heat exchanger or the fuel assembly should be avoided as these can compromise the lifetime of these components and potentially lead to safety hazards. This issue is particularly relevant to n...
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