Title
Guided Wave-Convolutional Neural Network Based Fatigue Crack Diagnosis of Aircraft Structures.
Abstract
Fatigue crack diagnosis (FCD) is of great significance for ensuring safe operation, prolonging service time and reducing maintenance cost in aircrafts and many other safety-critical systems. As a promising method, the guided wave (GW)-based structural health monitoring method has been widely investigated for FCD. However, reliable FCD still meets challenges, because uncertainties in real engineering applications usually cause serious change both to the crack propagation itself and GW monitoring signals. As one of deep learning methods, convolutional neural network (CNN) owns the ability of fusing a large amount of data, extracting high-level feature expressions related to classification, which provides a potential new technology to be applied in the GW-structural health monitoring method for crack evaluation. To address the influence of dispersion on reliable FCD, in this paper, a GW-CNN based FCD method is proposed. In this method, multiple damage indexes (DIs) from multiple GW exciting-acquisition channels are extracted. A CNN is designed and trained to further extract high-level features from the multiple DIs and implement feature fusion for crack evaluation. Fatigue tests on a typical kind of aircraft structure are performed to validate the proposed method. The results show that the proposed method can effectively reduce the influence of uncertainties on FCD, which is promising for real engineering applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19163567
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
convolutional neural network,guided wave based monitoring,fatigue crack diagnosis,uncertainty,structural health monitoring
Structural health monitoring,Expression (mathematics),Convolutional neural network,Communication channel,Fatigue testing,Electronic engineering,Fracture mechanics,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Deep learning,Guided wave testing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
16
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Liang Xu100.68
Shenfang Yuan27612.49
Jian Chen39319.77
Yuanqiang Ren4112.50