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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2023

A Review on Acoustic Emission Testing for Structural Health Monitoring of Polymer-Based Composites.

Noor Ghadarah, David Ayre

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
12.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 74 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Noor GhadarahSchool of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Cranfield MK43 0AL, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5795-4003
David AyreSchool of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Cranfield MK43 0AL, UK.
Cranfield University · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acoustic emission (AE) has received increased interest as a structural health monitoring (SHM) technique for various materials, including laminated polymer composites. Piezoelectric sensors, including PZT (piezoelectric ceramic) and PVDF (piezoelectric polymer), can monitor AE in materials. The thickness of the piezoelectric sensors (as low as 28 µm-PVDF) allows embedding the sensors within the laminated composite, creating a smart material. Incorporating piezoelectric sensors within composites has several benefits but presents numerous difficulties and challenges. This paper provides an overview of acoustic emission testing, concluding with a discussion on embedding piezoelectric AE sensors within fibre-polymer composites. Various aspects are covered, including the underlying AE principles in fibre-based composites, factors that influence the reliability and accuracy of AE measurements, methods to artificially induce acoustic emission, and the correlation between AE events and damage in polymer composites.

Indexed as

embeddingpiezoelectricPVDFPZT

Identifiers

PMID37571728
PMCPMC10422368
OpenAlexW4385577656

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