Date of Award
Fall 12-1992
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering
Department
Graduate Studies
Committee Chair
Eric v. K. Hill
Committee Member
David Kim
Committee Member
James L. Walker II
Abstract
This study used acoustic emission (AE) signal parameters to isolate the failure mechanisms in a 0° unidirectional, fiberglass/epoxy tensile test specimen. Since several failure mechanisms were known to be present, the lack of any distinctly identifiable bands in the original amplitude distribution indicated that there was considerable overlap between the AE signals of the various failure mechanisms. In order to separate the amplitude bands associated with each mechanism, it was necessary to sort on the duration of the AE signal. Two additional plots, counts versus amplitude and hits versus counts, were used to verify that the amplitude distributions were comprised of a single predominant mechanism. A total of seven failure mechanisms were isolated from the original data set, all but two having a shape similar to that of a normal distribution.
Scholarly Commons Citation
Kouvarakos, Michael, "Isolating Failure Mechanisms in a Fiberglass/Epoxy Tensile Test Specimen Using Acoustic Emission Signal Parameters" (1992). Master's Theses - Daytona Beach. 267.
https://commons.erau.edu/db-theses/267
