... a sound understanding of their expected damage evolution under in-service conditions and real-time health-monitoring methods to assess their damage state. The measurement of acoustic emissions (AEs), the transient elastic waves emitted during damage formation, offers an enhanced capability for evaluating...

...Peipei Feng; Pietro Borghesani; Wade A. Smith; Robert B. Randall; Zhongxiao Peng Acoustic emission (AE) techniques play a key role in machine condition monitoring and wear/fault diagnosis. Understanding the impact of friction and wear on the generation of AE signals is essential to building...

... in towing operations, remote control of equipment, communications lines, salvage operations, etc, sensors that transduce the behavior of the cable while in operation are of utmost importance. The first study which made use of acoustic emission for monitoring the state of health of ropes employed very...