In recent years, the dynamic behavior of solid structure defects is extremely important as a small defect that is growing may well be more significant than a larger stable defect. Acoustic Emission (AE) is the method used to investigate the behavior of defects under stress. The importance of the AE is to determine the source location when it occurs. It is a real time monitoring technique. Ident...

Manufacturing defects and discontinuities in a product are anomalies which can lead to severe damages may sometimes involve loss of life. These must be examined corrected before the goes into service. There two methods testing for viz. Destructive Testing Non-Destructive Testing. entails subjecting conditions that leads failure whereas (NDT) is process examining products way it retains its usef...

Acoustic -emission techniques are beginning to be frequently used as a means of detecting and locating deformation and fracture processes in both metallic and non-metallic engineering structures. This has happened despite a relatively poor understanding of the basic physical processes involved in the generation, propagation, and detection of acoustic -emission signals, and of the influence in m...

The acoustic emission (AE) signals of metal materials have been widely used to identify the deformation stage of a pressure vessel. In this work, Q235 steel samples with different propagation distances and geometrical structures are stretched to get the corresponding acoustic emission signals. Then the obtained acoustic emission signals are de-noised by empirical mode decomposition (EMD), and t...

the objective of this experimental work was to assess the drop impact damage onwoven glass fibre reinforced polymer composite laminate through online method and offlinemethod. online monitoring of drop impact damage was carried out by acoustic emission (ae)technique and ae signals during the drop impact test were captured. from the analysis of aesignals, it was observed that as the impact energ...

A cumulant-based independent component analysis (CumICA) is applied for blind source separation (BSS) in a synthetic, multi-sensor scenario, within a non-destructive pipeline test. Acoustic Emission (AE) sequences were acquired by a wide frequency range transducer (100-800 kHz) and digitalized by a 2.5 MHz, 8-bit ADC. Four common sources in AE testing are linearly mixed, involving real AE seque...