Detection of delamination in composite laminated plates using filtered mode shapes

Abstract

Filtered mode shapes are used to detect the presence, location, size and shape of the delaminations in composite laminated plates with various boundary conditions. This method is the extension of a previous study by the authors on the delamination detection in the beams using irregularities of the mode shapes. The mode shapes are filtered to separate the smooth and irregular parts. Presence and situation of delamination affects these separated parts, and these effects are used to detect the delamination. Here, two new indicators, named ‘slope of smooth part’ and ‘irregularities in the slope of smooth part’, are introduced to increase the clarity of detected damage and reduce the noisy effects. The former one is obtained by differentiating the smooth part of the mode shape and the latter by applying the filter on the slope of smooth part for another time. Using this method and the mentioned indicators, delaminations may be detected in the plates using the data of just the damaged structure. This is considered as an important advantage of the method as we do not need the intact structure data. The method is validated utilizing the numerical data for a delaminated plate model. This method lacks the ability to locate the position of delamination through the thickness and the delamination should not be too close to the edges of the plate.

Keywords

Laminated plate delamination detection modal analysis filter irregularity

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