Sánchez Iglesias, F.; Fernández López, A. Evaluating Structural Details’ Influence on Elastic Wave Propagation for Composite Structures via Ray Tracing. Sensors2023, 23, 7220.
Sánchez Iglesias, F.; Fernández López, A. Evaluating Structural Details’ Influence on Elastic Wave Propagation for Composite Structures via Ray Tracing. Sensors 2023, 23, 7220.
Sánchez Iglesias, F.; Fernández López, A. Evaluating Structural Details’ Influence on Elastic Wave Propagation for Composite Structures via Ray Tracing. Sensors2023, 23, 7220.
Sánchez Iglesias, F.; Fernández López, A. Evaluating Structural Details’ Influence on Elastic Wave Propagation for Composite Structures via Ray Tracing. Sensors 2023, 23, 7220.
Abstract
This study presents a novel method based in ray tracing for analyzing wave propagation in composites, specifically tailored for Structural Health Monitoring applications. The method offers distinct advantages over the commonly used Finite Element Method mainly in computational resource utilization, that has become a limiting factor for this kind of analyses. The ray tracing method is evaluated against a number of example cases representing structural details such as thickness changes, stringers or simulated damages and it highlights the significance of ray tracing to study wave propagation under these conditions and how it can serve as a valuable tool for structural health monitoring.
Keywords
SHM; wave propagation; composites; ray tracing
Subject
Engineering, Aerospace Engineering
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