Composites Science and Engineering ›› 2020, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (7): 27-32.

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STUDY ON INTERLAMINATION DAMAGE DETECTION OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS BY USING PZT-METAL STRUCTURE

WANG Xu, ZHENG Yan-ping*, XIA Xiao-song, ZHANG Chao-yu   

  1. School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
  • Received:2019-10-31 Online:2020-07-28 Published:2020-07-28

Abstract: Electro-mechanical impedance (EMI) method has been widely used in nondestructive testing of composite materials, but its accuracy in damage detection is still unsatisfactory. In this paper, based on the electro-mechanical impedance method, the damage of composite laminates is studied in the low frequency range by using the PZT-metal structure with the aid of the finite element software ANSYS. At the same time, the impedance curve of the PZT is plotted with the single-PZT structure as the comparison, and the root mean square deviation (RMSD) value is used as the standard of damage identification. It is proved that the PZT-metal structure has higher detection accuracy in low frequency and short distance from damage.

Key words: EMI, PZT-metal, the real part of impedance, RMSD, FE, composites

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