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Article: Findings from University of California provide new insights into structural health monitoring.
- Article from:
- Journal of Mathematics
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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"The embedment of micro-sensors and micro-devices into composite laminates for structural health monitoring systems leads to stress/strain concentrations due to geometrical and material discontinuities around such embedded inclusions, with high potential to initiate premature failures," scientists writing in the Structural Health Monitoring - an International Journal report.
"This article presents the efforts to estimate the effects of these stress/strain concentrations induced by the integration of rectangular-shape sensors within unidirectional fiber-glass composites. The micro-crack initiation sites and the failure load are predicted using finite-element ...