EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF A STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING METHODOLOGY: PART III. DAMAGE LOCATION ON AN AIRCRAFT WING

This paper documents the third phase of a programme of experimental work which validates a structural health monitoring methodology based on novelty detection. In this paper, an extension of the detection method for damage location is proposed and demonstrated. The structure of interest is a Gnat aircraft wing. Although it was not possible to damage the aircraft, the method was demonstrated by determining which of a set of inspection panels had been removed.