An integrated remote monitoring system for impact responses of aerospace structures

Abstract

A Structural Health Monitoring system to detect and identify accidental impact on the surface of any aerospace structure is developed and presented in this paper. Specifically, during an event of impact, a Non Destructive Damage Assessment & Location Estimation is incorporated to estimate the coordinates of the impact from an array of sensor information. A wireless communication system is also proposed here for transmitting the sensor information to any remote site for monitoring purpose. The proposed communication system is integrated on a prototype surface and tested for an in-lab environment. It is shown to be capable of transmitting location, time and magnitude information to a remote location in real-time.