<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>DATE: </b> Friday, October 18th, 2013</font></p><p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>TITLE: </b> </font><span style="line-height:21px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Measuring Crack Density in Composite Laminates using Piezoelectric Sensors</font></span></p>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>LOCATION: </b> GMCS 214</font></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>SPEAKER:</b> <span style="line-height:21px">Dr. </span></font><span style="line-height:21px;font-size:14px;font-family:'Times New Roman',Times,serif">Cecilia Larrosa. Exponent Inc.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height:21px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The use of fiber reinforced composite materials has increased tremendously in many applications from aerospace structures to sporting goods. These materials have many advantages, but the major challenge in composites design is their damage mechanics. Matrix cracking develops first, decreasing structural performance and promoting other damage development. The state-of-the-art inspection techniques cannot quantify crack density and they require the component to be off-service. For better design, safety, and maintenance of composite structures it is desirable to monitor the increase of cracks in-service. The objective of this investigation is to determine the quantity of matrix cracks in a composite laminate rapidly and in-service using built-in piezoelectric actuators and sensors. A diagnostic method was proposed which compared the sensed signal before and after the presence of matrix cracks and related these signal changes to crack density. It was found that change in the signal’s Power Spectral Density can be used to quantify crack density, and its sensitivity was dependent on the actuator to sensor orientation. This orientation dependence was found to be the same as that of the laminate’s stiffness degradation. A crack density monitoring method was developed that uses signal changes and theoretical laminate stiffness degradation. The model was tested on two layup configurations, and its crack density estimates matched experimental crack density values within established error bounds.</font></span><br>
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