Structure damage modelling for guided waves-based SHM systems testing

Structure damage modelling for the simulation of elastic wave propagation is essential for simulation-based testing of structural health monitoring (SHM) systems. Reflection, transmission and other complex phenomena related to elastic wave interaction with structure defects need to be reproduced by the simulation method to replace physical testing by numerical one and aid the design process of SHM system. Authors review commonly used methods for the simulation of elastic wave propagation pointing out their advantages and disadvantages. Subsequently methods for crack and delamination modelling are presented. Proposed models are used for numerical testing of designed SHM system. Simulation results are compared with experimental ones, showing very good agreement. Finally, structure damage models are used for testing delamination localization algorithm.