Download or read book Lamb Waves for Structural Health Monitoring in Viscoelastic Composite Materials written by Mircea Calomfirescu and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2008 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strucural Health Monitoring (SHM) is a novel philosophy for an autonomous, built-in nondestructive evalution of structural "health" on demand to reduce life-cycle costs, increase safety and reduce structural weight. This dissertation investigates ultrasonic guided waves, particulary Lamb waves, and their propagation properties as a method to perform Health Monitoring of viscoelastic composite structures.