Methods and recordable media for monitoring structural health conditions.
The present invention provides a method for interrogating a damage of a
host structure using a diagnostic network patch (DNP) system having
patches. An interrogation module partitions the plurality of patched in
subgroups and measures the sensor signals generated and received by
actuator and sensor patches, respectively. Then, a process module loads
sensor signal data to identify Lamb wave modes, determine the time of
arrival of the modes and generate a tomographic image. It also determines
distribution of other structural condition indices to generate
tomographic images of the host structure. A set of tomographic images can
be stacked to generate a hyperspectral tomography cube. A classification
module generates codebook based on K-mean/Learning Vector Quantization
algorithm and uses a neural-fuzzy-inference system to determine the type
of damages of the host structure.