Department of Mechanical Engineering
2015 Seminar Series
Massimo Ruzzene, Ph.D.
Professor
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Program Director
Sensors, Dynamics and Control (SDC)
Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E)
National Science Foundation
Structural Health and Strain Monitoring Sensing Through
Fourier-Based Wave Transducers
Feb. 20, 2015 | 1:00 PM | DeWalt Seminar Room, 2164 Martin Hall
abstract: The seminar reports on the design of a novel class of transducers for structural health monitoring and strain sensing designed using a Fourier-based approach. The design procedure formulates the problem
considering an arbitrarily shaped distribution of the sensing surface. Interrogation of the sensors is based on
the generation of guided and surface acoustic waves generated in the region surrounding the transducers.
The representation of the distribution of the sensing material is analyzed and designed in the spatial Fourier
domain, where the emission characteristics of the transducer in relation to the interrogating wave can be tailored to a specific application. For structural health monitoring, the sensing material distribution is defined to
provide the transducers with frequency-dependent directional properties, which can be employed as part of an
interrogation scheme based on generation and processing of guided waves in the structure. For strain sensing,
one-dimensional and two-dimensional grating configurations monitor frequency shifts of radiation associated
to local straining of the gratings. These frequency shifts can be related to the local strain components, so that a
rosette-like configuration can be implemented.
The talk illustrates the commonalities of the design procedure, which leads to novel Lamb wave and strain
transducers, and suggests the potential integration of the two sensing modalities as a single device for health
and usage monitoring of structural components.
Massimo Ruzzene is a Professor in the Schools of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) in 1999.
He is author of 2 books, 130 journal papers and about 170 conference papers. He has participated as a PI or coPI in various research projects funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Army Research
Office (ARO), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), NASA, the US Army, US Navy, DARPA, the National Science
Foundation (NSF), as well as companies such as Boeing, Eurocopter, Raytheon, Corning and TRW. Most of his
current and past research work has focused on solid mechanics, structural dynamics and wave propagation
with application to structural health monitoring, metamaterials, and vibration and noise control. M. Ruzzene is
a Fellow of ASME, an Associate Fellow of AIAA, and a member of AHS, and ASA. He is the program director for
the Sensors, Dynamics and Control Program of CMMI at NSF.
bio:
www.enme.umd.edu/seminars
For more information: Jin-Oh Hahn (jhahn12@umd.edu)