Design of intelligent composites with life-cycle health management capabilities

Colleen L. Rosania; Cecilia C. Larrosa; Fu-Kuo Chang

doi:10.1117/12.2084340

23 March 2015 Design of intelligent composites with life-cycle health management capabilities

Colleen L. Rosania, Cecilia C. Larrosa, Fu-Kuo Chang

Proceedings Volume 9438, Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems 2015; 94380N (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2084340
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Use of carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRPs) presents challenges because of their complex manufacturing processes and different damage mechanics in relation to legacy metal materials. New monitoring methods for manufacturing, quality verification, damage estimation, and prognosis are needed to use CFRPs safely and efficiently. This work evaluates the development of intelligent composite materials using integrated piezoelectric sensors to monitor the material during cure and throughout service life. These sensors are used to propagate ultrasonic waves through the structure for health monitoring. During manufacturing, data is collected at different stages during the cure cycle, detecting the changing material properties during cure and verifying quality and degree of cure. The same sensors can then be used with previously developed techniques to perform damage detection, such as impact detection and matrix crack density estimation. Real-time damage estimation can be combined with prognostic models to predict future propagation of damage in the material. In this work experimental results will be presented from composite coupons with embedded piezoelectric sensors. Cure monitoring and damage detection results derived from analysis of the ultrasonic sensor signal will be shown. Sensitive signal parameters to the different stimuli in both the time and frequency domains will be explored for this analysis. From these results, use of the same sensor networks from manufacturing throughout the life of the composite material will demonstrate the full life-cycle monitoring capability of these intelligent materials.

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Colleen L. Rosania, Cecilia C. Larrosa, and Fu-Kuo Chang "Design of intelligent composites with life-cycle health management capabilities", Proc. SPIE 9438, Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems 2015, 94380N (23 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2084340

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Composites

Sensors

Manufacturing

Epoxies

Ultrasonics

Wave propagation

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