Lamb Wave-Based Structural Health Monitoring on Composite Bolted Joints under Tensile Load

Bin Yang; Fu-Zhen Xuan; Yanxun Xiang; Dan Li; Wujun Zhu; Xiaojun Tang; Jichao Xu; Kang Yang; Chengqiang Luo

doi:10.3390/ma10060652

Lamb Wave-Based Structural Health Monitoring on Composite Bolted Joints under Tensile Load

Materials (Basel). 2017 Jun 14;10(6):652. doi: 10.3390/ma10060652.

Authors

Bin Yang¹, Fu-Zhen Xuan², Yanxun Xiang³, Dan Li⁴, Wujun Zhu⁵, Xiaojun Tang⁶, Jichao Xu⁷, Kang Yang⁸, Chengqiang Luo⁹

Affiliations

¹ School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China. yangbin@ecust.edu.cn.
² School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China. fzxuan@ecust.edu.cn.
³ School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China. yxxiang@ecust.edu.cn.
⁴ The Department of Electronic Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China. lidan@fudan.edu.cn.
⁵ School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China. wjzhu@mail.ecust.edu.cn.
⁶ Beijing Spacecrafts, China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing 100094, China. tangxiaojun2214@163.com.
⁷ School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China. 18767166026@163.com.
⁸ School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China. yangkangcxm@163.com.
⁹ School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China. chengqiangLuo@126.com.

Abstract

Online and offline monitoring of composite bolted joints under tensile load were investigated using piezoelectric transducers. The relationships between Lamb wave signals, pre-tightening force, the applied tensile load, as well as the failure modes were investigated. Results indicated that S0/A0 wave amplitudes decrease with the increasing of load. Relationships between damage features and S0/A0 mode were built based on the finite element (FE) simulation and experimental results. The possibility of application of Lamb wave-based structure health monitoring in bolted joint-like composite structures was thus achieved.

Keywords: FE simulation; Lamb wave propagation; composite bolted joints; structural health monitoring.