A passive monitoring technique based on dispersion compensation to locate impacts in plate-like structures

Abstract

A method for impact location in plate-like structures is proposed. The approach is based on guided waves dispersion compensation. Procedures based on dispersion compensation are usually applied to active monitoring techniques, as they require the knowledge of the time of impact to effectively compensate the guided waves dispersive behaviour. Unfortunately, this knowledge is not given in passive monitoring techniques. Despite this limit, the proposed dispersion compensation procedure is useful as it removes in the group delay of the acquired signals the dependence on the travelled distance. By cross-correlating the signals related to the same event acquired by different sensors, the difference in travelled distances can be determined and used to locate the wave source via hyperbolic positioning. The results show that the developed tool could pave he way for a new class of procedures to locate impacts in waveguides.

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