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Damage identification of single aluminium plate produced by hypervelocity impact based acoustic emission

  • Wugang Liu*
  • , Baojun Pang
  • , Zengyao Han
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beijing Institute of Structure and Environment Engineering
  • China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation

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Abstract

In order to ensure the astronauts' safety and spacecraft normal operation, the development of sensing systems to detect impacts on spacecraft has become an important problem for spacecraft design. The numerical simulations of acoustic emission (AE) signals produced by projectile hypervelocity impact on Aluminium plate at normal have been carried out using the SPH (smoothed particle hydrodynamics) technique of AUTODYN hydro-codes in this paper. The results of two dimensional simulations are given. In order to abstract the characteristics of different wave modes, AE signals are divided into lower frequency and higher frequency parts by wavelet time-frequency transform and reconstruction. The results show that the damage condition of the spacecraft can be represented by the amplitudes of the reconstructed impact signals. The patterns of impact damage can be divided into three types according to the ratio of the second to first low peak amplitude of AE reconstructed signals.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication61st International Astronautical Congress 2010, IAC 2010
Pages4384-4387
Number of pages4
StatePublished - 2010
Event61st International Astronautical Congress 2010, IAC 2010 - Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: 27 Sep 20101 Oct 2010

Publication series

Name61st International Astronautical Congress 2010, IAC 2010
Volume6

Conference

Conference61st International Astronautical Congress 2010, IAC 2010
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPrague
Period27/09/101/10/10

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