26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS2008-7.4 ST2:

ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS AND TECHNIQUES FOR AIRCRAFT STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING

B. Rocha, A. Fonseca*, A. Suleman**
IDMEC/IST, Portugal; *ICCTAE/IST, Portugal; **Univ. of Victoria & IDMEC/IST, Canada

Keywords: Structural Health Monitoring, assessment of aircraft structural integrity

This paper describes developed systems, methods and techniques for application on aircraft Structural Health Monitoring, allowing particularly diagnosis and prognostic of aircraft’s structural health. As a result, safety, reliability, operation readiness, operational costs and maintenance will be optimized. Some results from computational and experimental analysis are also presented.

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