structural health
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Research problems linked to this topic
- Local wall thinning in pipelines affects the structural integrity of industries, such as nuclear power plants (NPPs).
- The thermo-mechanical fatigue (TMF) of power plant components is caused by the cyclic operation of power plant.
- Many infrastructures need to be repaired or strengthened due to various reasons, such as unexpected deterioration and changes in performance requirement.
- Repairing materials are well-known to play an important role in rehabilitating and extending the service life for hydraulic concrete structures.
- Recently in various fields, numerous researches are going on for the assessment of material damage on the basis of crack initiation and propagation.
- The flaws that exist in rock masses may lead to crack propagation and instability of rock masses.
- In flat plate structures, the slab-column joints are prone to punching shear failure, which would trigger progressive collapse of the entire structural systems.
- Lamb waves play an important role in structure health monitoring (SHM) systems.
- Buckling of plates and tubes plays an important role in structural safety and energy absorption.
- Rail breaks caused by rolling contact fatigue defects are of growing concern to the railway industry.
- Bone fracture due to an accident, aging or diseases is a feature of everyday life.
- The angled crack problem has been given special attention in the recent years by fracture mechanics investigators due to its close proximity to realistic conditions in engineering structures.
- There is a long term deflection in continuous Pre-stressed Concrete Girders (PSC) due to creep, shrinkage and daily atmospheric temperature variation, inhibiting lower load bearing capacity.
- Accidental loads such as explosion and vehicle impact could lead to failure of one or several load-bearing members in the structures, which is likely to trigger disproportionate progressive collapse of overall structures.
- When sensors are embedded in composites for structural integrity monitoring (SIM), the sensors per se, unfortunately, degrade the original integrity of host composites.
- This research investigates wood defects, particularly the formation of surface cracks, during the production of thermally modified wood and its exposure to cyclic moisture changes.
- With the objective of real-time monitoring of the structural integrity of man-made structures such as bridges, high buildings, and dams and areas of bedrock collapse and other such hazardous areas, we are attempting to use fiber Bragg grating (FBG) to construct a structural health monitoring system.
- Due to increased frequency of terrorist attacks and blast threats all over the world, safety of personnel and structural integrity under blast loading is most important.