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Health Monitoring of Aerospace Structures: Smart Sensor Technologies and Signal Processing

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Even though I bought this book back when it was fresh of the printing press, and payed the price for it, I am still glad I bought it. Now with a much more sensible price tag, this is a great book for people, especially students who are or want to do research in this or related area.

As an edited collection of research by the editors and others, it has over two hundred references, and gives you nothing but relevant information from them. The first two chapters of the book, the introduction, and "Aircraft Structural Health and Usage Monitoring" give all the relevant background information you would require if you were just starting or studying in the area. Next the book gives a concise overview of "Operational Load Monitoring Using Optical Fibre [strain] Sensors." The chapter give an insight into current optical fiber strain sensing implementations and methods of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). Following this is a chapter dedicated to SHM with ultrasonic waves. The chapter is predominantly based on detecting acoustic signals with piezoelectric transducers. The next chapter is on of the most useful, especially for those going from NDE to SHM, which is "Signal Processing". Ideally, the section could have been longer, with an important topic such as wavelet analysis being summarised in a couple of pages. To off set this, the section has the largest number of references, so additional material can be easily located. The book concludes with what can be considered case studies which show "Structural Health Monitoring Evaluation Tests."

Overall this is a well written reference book that with supplements could be used as a text book. I would say 4.5 but having to choose between 4 and 5, I have to give it a 5, as it is certainly above a 4.

Worth the investment.

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