WO2002062206A9 - In-situ structural health monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics system utilizing thin piezoelectric sensors - Google Patents
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- Ultrasonic transducers In general, it is known to propagate electromagnetic signals through materials in order to measure anomalies in the materials.
- Ultrasonic transducers include piezoelectric crystals of a certain mass. The crystals are excited at a known resonant frequency so that the resonant crystal vibration generates an ultrasonic signal.
- Ultrasonic sensors which are relatively bulky and expensive, are typically used in portable devices placed in communication with the structure of interest so that the crystals propagate ultrasonic waves into the material. Sensors detecting resulting signals in the material sense patterns that indicate anomalies in the materials such as cracks or corrosion.
- This and other objects may be achieved within a method of detecting a damage feature in a structure.
- a plurality of thin piezoelectric ceramic sensors are embedded on the structure.
- a first sensor is excited so that the first sensor produces a responsive signal in the structure.
- the responsive signal is received by a second sensor, and the presence or absence of at least one predetermined signal characteristic in the received responsive signal is determined.
- the predetermined signal characteristic is related to existence of the damage feature .
- Figure 1 is a cross-sectional schematic view of a thin piezoelectric sensor embedded on a structure for in-situ measurement in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention
- Figure 2 is a cross-sectional diagrammatic illustration of a PZT wafer active sensor constrained by structural stiffness
- Figure 3 is a graphical representation of a self-diagnostic performed in a sensor in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention
- Figure 4 is a graphical representation of an impedance spectrum measured by a sensor array in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention
- FIGS. 5a and 5b are schematic illustrations of a sensor array in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention,-
- Figure 6 is an electrical schematic view of a sensor in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- Figures 7a and 7b are schematic illustrations of a sensor array in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention
- Figures 8a-8d are graphical illustrations of elastic measurement waves generated by a transducer array in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention
- FIGS 9a-9c are schematic illustrations of embedded sensors in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- Figures lOa-lOd are graphical illustrations of measurement and response signals resulting from use of a transducer in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention
- Figure 11 is a schematic illustration of a sensor array in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention in passive detection mode.
- FIG. 12 is a block diagram illustration of a sensor and monitoring system in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present invention. Repeat use of reference characters in the present specification and drawings is intended to represent same or analogous features or elements of the invention.
- the present invention relates to embedding relatively small transducers on a structure in order to monitor the structure's structural health.
- active electro-mechanical impedance sensing active ultrasonic sensing
- passive sensing through interrogation of acoustic emissions and detection of elastic waves indicating impacts by a foreign body.
- E/M electromechanical
- a description of an electromechanical (E/M) impedance damage identification strategy is presented in the Appendix. Summarizing the identification strategy, the effect of a piezoelectric active sensor affixed to a structure is to apply a local strain parallel to the structure's surface that creates stationary elastic waves in the structure.
- the apparent electromechanical impedance of the piezo-active sensor as coupled to the host structure is :
- Z ( ⁇ ) is the equivalent electro-mechanical admittance as seen at the PZT active sensor terminals
- C is the zero-load capacitance of the PZT active sensors
- K 3 ⁇ is the electro- mechanical cross coupling coefficient of the PZT active sensor
- Z str is the impedance of the structure
- Z PZT is the impedance of the structure
- the electro-mechanical impedance method is applied by scanning a predetermined frequency range in the hundreds of kHz band and recording the complex impedance spectrum. By comparing the impedance spectra taken at various times during the service life of a structure, structural degradation and the appearance of incipient damage may be identified.
- the frequency should be high enough, however, that the signal wavelength is significantly smaller than the defect size.
- each active sensor has its own sensing area characterized by a sensing radius and the corresponding sensing circles indicated at 18. Inside each sensing area, the sensor detection capability diminishes with the distance between the sensor and the damaged or corroded area .
- a damage feature that is placed in the sensor near field is expected to create a larger disturbance in the sensor response than a damage feature placed in the far field. Effective area coverage is insured when the sensing circles of several sensors overlap.
- the diagnostics of the adjacent structure is performed using the active (real) part of the E/M impedance. Incipient damage changes taking place in the structure are reflected in the drive-point structural impedance. The change in the structural drive-point impedance extensively affects the real part of the effective electro-mechanical impedance of the piezoelectric active sensor embedded on the structure.
- Figure 5a illustrates a structural crack placed in the sensing circle of the first active sensor.
- the presence of the crack modifies the structural field and effective drive-point structural impedance as seen by that sensor.
- the crack also belongs to the sensing circle of the second sensor, but it is at the periphery of this circle.
- the structural crack is outside the sensing circles of the third and fourth sensors, and their drive-point structural impedances will be almost unchanged.
- the crack illustrated in Figure 5a is expected to strongly modify the E/M impedance of the first sensor, to slightly modify that of the second sensor and to leave the E/M impedances of the third and fourth sensors unchanged.
- Figure 5b illustrates a patch of corrosion damage placed in the sensing circle of the first active sensor.
- the corrosion damage also belongs, to a lesser extent, to the sensing circles of the second and fourth sensors.
- the effective drive-point structural impedance seen by the first sensor will be strongly modified.
- the drive-point impedance seen by the second sensor will be modified to a lesser extent, and the impedance of the fourth sensor will be slightly modified.
- the drive-point impedance of the third sensor remains virtually unchanged. As indicated by the impedance equation above, these changes in drive-point structural impedance will be directly reflected in the sensors' E/M impedances.
- the corrosion damage strongly modifies the E/M impedance of the first sensor, somewhat modifies the E/M impedance of the second sensor, slightly modifies the E/M impedance of the fourth sensor and leaves the E/M impedance of the third sensor unchanged.
- the discussion above focuses on the use of E/M impedance sensing to detect defect or damage features in a structure. It is also possible to use active piezoelectric sensors to propagate elastic waves through the structure so that signal reflections and scattering effects may be used to detect damage features such as cracks and corroded areas.
- the present method may include the use of a single sensor, the embodiment described herein includes the use of a sensor array. In general, the sensors in a given array are clustered in a predetermined positional arrangement and are sequentially excited in round-robin fashion so that each sensor emits an ultrasonic acoustic wave into the structure.
- the remaining sensors in the array monitor the emitted signals and, from the received responses, may determine the existence and position of a damage feature.
- Excitation may be at a fixed frequency, a frequency burst or a frequency sweep.
- the particular frequency band may be selected consistently with the size of the feature to be identified.
- FIGS 7a and 7b illustrate an array of four active sensors in an ultrasonic sensing mode.
- Piezoelectric active sensors can act as both sensors and actuators. At each measurement, one of the four active sensors is both an actuator and a sensor, while the remaining three act only as sensors.
- the actuator function moves round-robin among the four sensors. Assuming the first sensor is the actuator, it generates elastic waves that propagate through the material and are sensed at the second, third and fourth active sensors. The properties of these waves are affected by the presence of impact damage or material defects and can be interpreted to yield damage location and amplitude. This method can be applied, for example, to detect damage arising from cracks and corrosion.
- the second and fourth active sensors receive both direct and deflected wave signals from the actuator (i.e. the first active sensor) .
- the first sensor also acts as a receptor and detects a wave reflected from the crack.
- the third active sensor receives a transmitted wave having an amplitude that is a function of the damage size.
- Corrosion damage is multi-dimensional and can cover a wide area.
- the first active sensor generates elastic waves that propagate through the material and are sensed at the second, third, and fourth sensors.
- the damaged material affects the speed and attenuation of the waves.
- elastic waves received by the second and fourth sensors do not engage the corroded area and are, therefore, unaffected. Waves received by the third sensor travel through the damaged material and are therefore modified in speed and attenuation.
- the material degradation may be so advanced that no detectable waves are received at the third sensor.
- an information matrix is stored so that the location, size and orientation of the damaged area are determined.
- the solution may be derived from conventional linear algebra solutions or neural networks, and the use of multiple measurements mitigates errors.
- the types of elastic waves used in the damage identification process may vary, for example among constant amplitude sine waves, bursts, sweeps and impulses.
- Four wave- type examples are provided in Figures 8a - 8d.
- the constant amplitude sine wave in Figure 8a is the simplest waveform. Because excitation frequency should be matched with the structural characteristics of the damage area in order to excite a structural resonance, however, use of the constant amplitude wave may require multiple emissions at varying frequencies to test for all damage types of interest. Accordingly, a frequency sweep as in Figure 8b may be desirable in that it permits the excitation of more than one frequency in the same measurement.
- An impulse signal as in Figure 8c permits the excitation of a wide frequency spectrum.
- a frequency burst as in Figure 8d may be desirable in that it includes a dominant frequency that can be tuned to particular structural and flaw-size requirements. Since its frequency content is known, a burst wave can be readily detected and filtered from background noise, and its limited duration facilitates the identification and analysis of burst reflection from defects and boundaries.
- Experimental Results Lamb-wave propagation experiments were conducted on aging aircraft panels using a number of PZT active sensors affixed at various locations. Experiments were performed to verify the wave propagation properties and to identify reflections due to intrinsic construction features of the panels, for example, rivets, splice joints, etc. The illustrations in Figures 9a -
- FIG. 9c provide a crack detection example.
- a series of rivets 20 attach to panel sections 22 and 24 so that a side edge 23 of panel 24 faces toward the right in the view shown in Figure 9a.
- a piezoelectric active sensor 26 is attached by adhesive to panel 24 at a distance of 200mm from rivets 20.
- a more complicated array of rivets is provided on panel 24 in Figure 9b.
- the panel shown in Figure 9c includes the same rivet arrangement, with the addition of a simulated crack (12.75mm EDM hairline slit) 28 starting from the rightmost rivet at the top horizontal row. That is, Figure 9c illustrates the damaged panel. Experiments were also conducted on a panel (not shown) having no rivets or cracks.
- FIG. 10a shows the emitted and received signals on the undamaged panel without rivets (not shown) .
- the graph shows the emitted signal, centered at around 5.3 microseconds, and multiple reflections from the panel edges. The reflections start to arrive at approximately 60 micro-seconds .
- Figure 10b illustrates the signals for the panel shown in Figure 9b.
- the signal features reflection from the rivets and multiple reflections from the panel edges.
- This TOF is consistent with traveling 200mm at a group velocity of approximately 5.4km/s.
- Figure 10c shows the signal recorded on the damaged panel of Figure 9c.
- the signal response is similar to that shown in Figure 10b, but is stronger at the 42 micro-second position. Subtracting the signal of Figure 10b from that of Figure 10c, as shown in Figure lOd, identifies the effect of the crack. That is, the strong wave pack centered on 42 micro-seconds illustrates the response from the crack.
- the baseline measurements may be subtracted from subsequent measurements to identify the existence of damage features.
- the time-of-flight determines the distance from the respective sensor.
- a plurality of sensors is disposed in a predetermined orientation relative to each other and at known positions on the structure.
- the sensor outputs are monitored intermittently or continuously, even though the sensors may not be engaged in either of the active measurement procedures described above.
- Damage events may be identified through the reception of stress waves generated in the structure through impacts or other material disruptions. Certain waves may, for example, indicate an occurrence of a low-velocity impact.
- the sensor may also, however, detect acoustic emission signals that indicate damage has occurred. By determining and recording the location and time of damage events, a record may be compiled to predict the structure's remaining operative life.
- Figure 11 illustrates a damage event taking place in a zone monitored by four piezoelectric transducers acting as passive sensors.
- the damage under consideration is a low-velocity impact.
- the impact location and intensity are determined from elastic wave signals received by the four sensors.
- the arrival time at each sensor is proportional to the distance between the sensor and the impact location.
- a simple triangulation is used to determine the impact's position with respect to the sensors.
- This information is provided to a computer (not shown) that time-stamps the information so that a damage event record is kept.
- a computer not shown
- more data is available than necessary.
- an optimal solution algorithm for example least squares, is used. Damage intensity is determined simultaneously by inclusion in the variable list.
- a neural network algorithm may be applied instead of explicit calculation.
- Information-rich data received from the sensors is preferably processed such that only relevant content is retained. The elimination of spurious noise and far-field disturbances, and the identification of useful information directly related to structural damage, is addressed through appropriate signal processing methodologies.
- the determination of the structure's physical condition using sensor measurements is a nonlinear inverse problem.
- Signal processing and interpretation methods may be application- specific (model-based) or generic (non-model) .
- Conventional (for example, Fourier analysis) and advanced (for example, Wavelet analysis and digital filters) algorithms available in specialized software packages for example, MATLAB, LABVIEW, MATHCAD, or AUTOSIGNAL may be used, as well as neural networks and expert systems .
- transducers in a measurement array execute self-diagnostics (as described in the Appendix) prior to damage detection measurement cycles.
- Temperature and humidity are the primary environmental changes that affect sensor calibration. Generally, these changes may affect the sensor itself and/or its adhesive interface with the structure. Although the values of the piezoelectric coefficients vary with temperature, the general aspect of the frequency response curve is only shifted. Thus, by calibrating the frequency shift over a variety of temperatures, the system may compensate for temperature changes, thereby maintaining the general nature of the E/M impedance spectrum.
- the sensor/structure adhesion may be affected by both humidity and temperature, and the combination of humidity and temperature change may be especially detrimental to the adhesive interface.
- the self-diagnostic described in the Appendix with respect to Figure 3 may be employed to identify disbonded sensors .
- Each sensor may be formed as a small square or disk of thin piezoelectric ceramic material.
- the length and width of each wafer is less than 13mm, +/-0.13mm, and between 0.2mm and 0.49mm thick, +/-0.025mm, respectively.
- Electrodes are attached to the sensors, which communicate with a personal computer, other computing devices and/or other system components, through hard-wire or wireless connections. Sensors may be embedded on structures by, for example, insertion into a composite material during the layering process so that the sensor is actually within the structure or by adhesive attachment to the structure's outer surface as discussed above.
- Figure 12 provides an overview of an embodiment of the present invention.
- System 30 includes one or more structures 32 having one or more transducer arrays disposed thereon as described above.
- an ultra-high frequency high-energy tone-burst source 34 excites individual sensors within each transducer array in round-robin fashion through a programmable wide-band bi-directional twenty- channel scanner/selector 36. These components communicate with a personal computer 38 through an ultra-fast data acquisition module 40. Computer 38 also acquires measurement data from the transducer array through data acquisition module 40.
- the system may include a wireless communication data-burst transmitter/receiver server 42 that excites and reads the transducer array through a plurality of data-concentrators 44. That is, assuming there are a plurality of transducer arrays disposed about a structure, each transducer is attached to an antenna that communicates with a data- concentrator 44 dedicated to the transducer's array.
- the one or more data-concentrators communicate with transmitter/receiver server 42 which, in turn, wirelessly communicates with an antenna associated with computer 38 or acquisition module 40.
- an adjustable-voltage-power gain- phase impedance analyzer 46 excites the transducers, which output measurement information back to analyzer 46.
- Analyzer 46 includes software algarithons to analyze the sensor data to determine the locations and orientation of damage features as described above. Alternatively, analyzer 46 may forward the data to computer 38 for analysis.
- computer 38 houses the system's software components, the operation of which is generally described above and which may include non-destructive evaluation and imaging software package 48, monitoring diagnostics and analysis software package 52 and/or artificial intelligence, neural -network and data mining software 54. While one or more preferred embodiments of the invention have been described above, it should be understood that any and all equivalent realizations of the present invention are included within the scope and spirit thereof. The embodiments depicted are presented by example only and are not intended as limitations upon the present invention.
- piezoceramics Because of their intrinsic electro-mechanical (E/M) coupling, commercially available low-cost piezoceramics can be used as both sensors and actuators .
- the frequency bandwidth of these devices is orders of magnitude larger than that of conventional shakers and impact hammers.
- Small piezoelectric ceramic wafers can be permanently attached to structural surfaces to form sensor and actuator arrays that permit effective modal identification in a wide frequency band.
- the electrical admittance as measured at the terminals of the piezoelectric (PZT) wafer attached to a structure, is as follows:
- the E/M impedance/admittance response may be used to measure the structural dynamics of a material .
- a one-dimensional structure for example a beam
- a ceramic PZT active sensor 12 having a length I a , at a position on beam 10 between x a and x a +
- the PZT active sensor expands by SPZT. This
- reaction force F PZT from the beam onto sensor 12 and an equal and opposite force from the sensor onto the beam.
- This force excites the beam.
- N PZT axial force excitation
- M PZ ⁇ - a bending moment excitation
- the active sensor is electrically excited with a high-frequency harmonic signal, it induces elastic waves into the beam structure.
- the elastic waves travel sideways into the beam structure, setting the beam into oscillation. In a steady-state regime, the structure oscillates at the PZT excitation frequency.
- the reaction force per unit displacement (dynamic stiffness) presented by the structure to the PZT depends on the internal state of the structure, on the excitation frequency, and on the boundary conditions:
- equation (2) represents a point-wise structural stiffness.
- the length, width, and thickness are assumed to have widely separated values ( a ⁇ jb a ⁇ 2 a ) such that the length, width, and thickness motions are practically uncoupled.
- Si is the strain
- x is the stress
- D 3 is the electrical displacement (charge per unit area)
- _• is the mechanical
- ⁇ 3 r is the dielectric constant at zero
- d 3X is the induced strain coefficient, i.e., mechanical strain per unit electric field.
- the piezoelectric active sensor Since the piezoelectric active sensor is ultimately bonded to the structure, an elastically constrained sensor is considered. As a result of this assumption, the active sensor is constrained by structural stiffness, k str , as shown in Fig. 2 For symmetry, the structural stiffness has been split into two end components, each of size 2k str . The boundary conditions applied at both ends connect the resultant of internal stresses with the spring reaction force, i.e.,
- the constants C x and C 2 are to be determined from the boundary conditions.
- Equation (4) can be re-expressed as
- Eqs. (16) bridge the gap between high-frequency sensor-focused analysis and low-frequency structure-focused analysis.
- the present results cover the complete frequency spectrum and encompass both structure and sensor dynamics.
- F is the frequency-dependent complex stiffness ratio that reflects the structural point-wise dynamics and the sensor dissipation mechanisms .
- H(x - x a ) 0 for x ⁇ x a
- H(x - x a ) 1 for N e ⁇ x,t)
- Equations (20) and (21) correspond to axial and flexural vibrations, respectively.
- Axial vibrations modes are usually of much larger frequency than flexural vibration modes, but their vibration frequencies are commensurable with those of the PZT active sensors. Thus, both axial and flexural vibrations are considered.
- C n are the modal amplitudes.
- the SISO FRF is the same as the dynamic structural compliance, as seen by the PZT wafer active sensor.
- the dynamic structural stiffness is the inverse of the structural compliance, i.e.,
- the analytical model described above was used to perform several numerical simulations that directly predict the E/M impedance and admittance signature at an active sensor's terminals during structural identification. Subsequently, experiments were performed to verify these predictions. The simulation conditions identically represent specimens consisting of
- the numerical simulation was performed using a MATHCAD- coded simulation based on modal analysis theory, assuming a damping coefficient of 1% for steel beams. Numerically exact expressions for the axial and flexural frequencies and mode shapes were used. The simulation was performed over a modal subspace that incorporates all modal frequencies in the frequency bandwidth of interest. The theoretical analysis indicates that these frequencies should be identical with the basic beam resonances. The "calc" columns of Table 1 show the first six predicted resonances for axial and flexural vibrations. During the experiments, a Hewlett-Packard 4194A Impedance Analyzer was used to record the E/M impedance real part spectrum in the l-30kHz range. To approximate the free- free boundary conditions, the beams were supported on common packing foam.
- the beam natural frequencies were identified from the E/M impedance spectrum. The results are given in the "EXP" columns of Table 1. When the beam thickness was doubled, the frequencies also doubled. This is consistent with theoretical prediction. The error between theory and experiment, however, seems larger for the double thickness beam.
- the experimental results indicate frequency clusters, which move to higher frequencies as beam width is reduced. The frequency clusters appear to be associated with width vibrations. Width vibrations are also influenced by thickness, i.e., they shift to higher frequencies as thickness increases. This is also noticeable in Table 1, which shows that the lowest cluster appeared for the single-thickness wide specimen and that the highest cluster appeared for double-thickness narrow beam.
- Table 2 presents the mass and stiffness for the sensor and structure. For purposes of comparison, the table also presents the mass of an accelerometer.
- Table 2 illustrates the non-invasive properties of piezoelectric wafer active sensors.
- the mass and stiffness editions of the sensors are within about 1% (0.5% for mass, and 1.5% for stiffness).
- the present invention contemplates embedding piezoelectric wafer transducers on mechanical structures for potentially long periods of time.
- a self- diagnostic may be employed in which the reactive part of the transducer's impedance is measured over a relatively broad frequency range.
- Piezoelectric active sensors are predominately capacitive devices dominated by reactive impedance. Baseline impedance signatures can be used to identify defective active sensors.
- a reactive impedance spectrum 14 of a well-bonded PZT sensor is compared with an impedance spectrum 16 of a disbonded (free) sensor.
- the appearance of sensor free-vibration resonance and the disappearance of structural resonances provide un-ambiguous features that indicate the degree of the transducer's integrity.
- Piezoelectric active sensors, and the associated structural dynamic identification method described above based on electromechanical impedance response is well-suited for small rigid machinery parts having natural frequencies in the kHz range.
- Figure 4 illustrates the natural frequencies identified by two PZT active sensors disposed on an aircraft turbo-engine blade, one on the blade's main portion and one at the blade root. Following identification of such impedance spectra from the sensors, the sensors may thereafter be periodically monitored for deviations in the spectra that could indicate structural defects in the blade.
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