Probabilistic residual strength assessment of smart composite aircraft panels using guided waves

Ilias N. Giannakeas, Fatemeh Mazaheri, Omar Bacarreza, Zahra Sharif Khodaei and Ferri M.H. Aliabadi

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2023, vol. 237, issue C

Abstract: Typical prognosis methods in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) link the degradation mechanisms to the extracted health indicators. Such approaches however do not provide estimations on the current strength loss when a new damage is detected. This study presents a framework that enables the SHM-informed asset integrity management of composites. First, the integrated guided wave based SHM system is used to inform on the existence, location and size of the damage and subsequently, the residual strength of the structure is predicted. The framework combines physics-based and data-driven models to mitigate the incompleteness of the former and address issues relating to the representativeness in the training datasets of the later. Detailed finite element models are used to create a digital representation of the structure while a building-block program is initiated to quantify and propagate the uncertainties observed experimentally. A 1.6Â m composite panel with a skin-stringer delamination, equipped with a network of 24 piezoelectric transducers, is used as a case study to demonstrate the prognostic capabilities of the framework. The framework estimated the damage size with a mean absolute percent error (MAPE) of approximately 10% while the residual strength of a destructively tested damaged panel was predicted with a MAPE of 5%.

Keywords: Structural health monitoring; Reliability analysis; Composite materials; Residual strength assessment; Multi-fidelity data fusion; Grey-box model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2023.109338

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