A novel strain-based health indicator for the remaining useful life estimation of degrading composite structures

Georgios Galanopoulos, Nick Eleftheroglou, Dimitrios Milanoski, Agnes Broer, Dimitrios Zarouchas, Theodoros Loutas*

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Abstract

We present a generic methodology for developing a Health Indicator out of strain-based Structural Health Monitoring data suitable for implementation in prognostic tasks. For this purpose, an in-house test campaign is launched. Single-stringered composite panels are subjected to compression-compression fatigue with the strains being monitored with Fiber Bragg Grating sensors located along the stringers’ feet. Three different fatigue scenarios with increased complexity are investigated i.e. constant amplitude fatigue, variable amplitude fatigue and finally random amplitude (spectrum) fatigue. In this paper, we propose a fusion scheme based on Genetic Algorithms, with the resulted fused Health Indicator achieving high monotonicity and prognosability, both crucial attributes for an enhanced performance of prognostic algorithms. Finally, a popular machine learning algorithm, i.e. Gaussian Process Regression, is employed in order to predict the Remaining Useful Life of the panels in the test set. It is evidenced that the newly proposed fused Health Indicator predicts the Remaining Useful Life far more accurately as several popular performance metrics indicate. The methodology retains a data agnostic character able to be applied in Structural Health Monitoring data from different sensing technologies.

Original languageEnglish
Article number116579
JournalComposite Structures
Volume306
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

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Keywords

  • Composite structures
  • Fiber Bragg grating sensors
  • Genetic algorithms
  • Health indicators
  • Remaining Useful Life prediction
  • Structural health monitoring

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