One major challenge confronting the aerospace industry today is to develop a reliable and universal Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system allowing for direct aircraft inspections and maintenance costs reduction. SHM based on guided Lamb waves is an approach capable of addressing this issue and satisfying all the associated requirements. This paper presents an approach to monitoring damage growth in composite aerospace structures and early damage detection. The main component of the system is a piezoelectric transducers (PZT) network integrated with composites. This work describes sensors’ integration with the structure. In particular, some issues concerning the mathematical algorithms giving information about damage from the impact damage presence and its growth are discussed.
Recently Polish Air Force has been equipped with new types of aircraft. New aircraft have many elements made of composites. Composites enable increasing performance but also pose new challenges. One of these challenges is the necessity of repairing after damage. This paper presents the results of the non-destructive inspection (MIA, conductivity, optical measurement ) of the C-295 plane after damage. Some parts made of composites and metal were damaged. In this paper, the authors propose a technology of repairing damaged parts.
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