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T1 - Damage localisation in delaminated composite plates using a Gaussian process approach
AU - Corrado, Nicolò
AU - Gherlone, Marco
AU - Surace, Cecilia
AU - Hensman, James
AU - Durrande, Nicolas
PY - 2015/10
Y1 - 2015/10
N2 - The presence of a delamination in a bi-dimensional structure causes a discontinuity in the smoothness of the mode shapes on the perimeter of the damaged area. On this basis, in this paper, a numerical method proposed by the authors for detecting discontinuities in the first derivative of a smooth piecewise function, based on a Gaussian process regression (GPR) approach, has been applied to the problem of delamination localisation in multilayered composite plates. Using the finite-element method, the mode shapes of a multilayered composite plate with a delamination are calculated and used as input data for the damage localisation procedure. The performance of the approach are analysed for different sizes and through-the-thickness positions of the damage. Furthermore the problem of ‘boundary disturbance’, the erroneous indication that a fault is present near the edge of the plate exhibited when applying the GPR approach to bi-dimensional structures, is addressed using an extrapolation procedure. The effect of noise is also investigated in order to demonstrate the effectiveness and the versatility of the method in localising delaminations.
AB - The presence of a delamination in a bi-dimensional structure causes a discontinuity in the smoothness of the mode shapes on the perimeter of the damaged area. On this basis, in this paper, a numerical method proposed by the authors for detecting discontinuities in the first derivative of a smooth piecewise function, based on a Gaussian process regression (GPR) approach, has been applied to the problem of delamination localisation in multilayered composite plates. Using the finite-element method, the mode shapes of a multilayered composite plate with a delamination are calculated and used as input data for the damage localisation procedure. The performance of the approach are analysed for different sizes and through-the-thickness positions of the damage. Furthermore the problem of ‘boundary disturbance’, the erroneous indication that a fault is present near the edge of the plate exhibited when applying the GPR approach to bi-dimensional structures, is addressed using an extrapolation procedure. The effect of noise is also investigated in order to demonstrate the effectiveness and the versatility of the method in localising delaminations.
KW - Delamination
KW - Gaussian process regression
KW - Mode shapes
KW - Plates
KW - Post damage measurements
U2 - 10.1007/s11012-015-0193-1
DO - 10.1007/s11012-015-0193-1
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84944354949
VL - 50
SP - 2537
EP - 2546
JO - Meccanica
JF - Meccanica
SN - 0025-6455
IS - 10
ER -