Structural health
monitoring i.e. to detect damage in the structure at the earliest possible
state is crucial in civil, mechanical, aerospace and other engineering
communities. Most of the existing damage detection methods are either visual or
experimental such as acoustic or ultrasonic methods, magnet field methods, radiographs,
eddy-current methods and thermal field methods. However, these experimental
techniques require that the vicinity of the damage is known a priori and
that the portion of the structure being inspected is readily accessible. These
experimental methods can detect damage on or near the surface of the structure.
The objective of the project is to investigate various global damage detection
methods that can be applied to complex structures using advanced methods of
signal processing. At the completion of this project the students must have
learnt various machine learning methods of fault/damage detection in
structures.
Undergraduate
None
Lab allocations have not been finalised