Ultrasonic Guided Waves

An Open Access Data Set

TRANSPARENT

Who did what, when and how?
Every task tracked.

RELIABLE

Collaborators from different research groups with wide-ranging expertise.

OPEN

Free access for
EVERYONE!

IMPROVE YOUR RESEARCH

Rely on Collective Data, Emphasise Your Work!

As importance of ultrasonic guided waves is growing rapidly, new signal evaluation techniques occur almost on a regular basis. Unfortunately, they often lack real data testing or at least comprehensible data acquisition.
To enable comparisons of evaluation methods on a mutual basis, this website provides a transparent data set of real wide-range measurements. As it is freely available we explicitly encourage everyone to test their own algorithm with the provided data and include the results in their publications.

HOW TO CITE GET STARTED

Who We Are

Inquisitive people keeping themselves busy with problems of structural health monitoring and guided waves join together in an expert committee under the patronage of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung e.V. (DGZfP). Therein the working group signal processing pulls together those who sympathise especially with processing of guided wave signals. For now, three regions of interest are investigated precisley:

Imaging
 

Accurate imaging techniques enable a precise damage localization and targeted maintenance actions.
 

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Wave Field Analysis

Acoustic wave field analysis helps understanding the nature of guided wave propagation and provides necessary information for reliable damage characterization.

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Environmental & Operational Effects

For a robust and practical guided wave SHM system all potential environmental effects on the system have to be taken into account.

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Collaborators

For now the team includes researchers from the following institutions and companies:

Goethe Universität
Frankfurt am Main

Jochen Moll

Universität Augsburg

Markus Sause

Airbus Helicopters

Martin Bach

Faserinstitut Bremen e.V.

Michael Koerdt

Universität Siegen

Jens Kathol,
Claus-Peter Fritzen

Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

Maria Moix-Bonet,
Armin Huber

Fraunhofer-Institut für Keramische Technologien und Systeme IKTS

Robert Neubeck,
Kilian Tschöke,
Lars Schubert

Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM)

Yevgeniya Lugovtsova,
Jannis Bulling,
Jens Prager

DATA SET

A First Step to Increase Comparability

We aim to provide a reliable and open accessable data set for guided wave inspection techniques for carbon fibre reinforced polymers. Hence, data was recorded with our utmost care and expertise. A detailed description is attached to the data.

MANUFACTURING

The samples were produced according to the high standards of aerospace requirements.

QUALITY CONTROL

X-ray imaging and ultrasonic inspection assure the integrity of the samples. Material properties are provided.

WAVE PROPAGATION

Propagation behaviour of guided waves in the samples was recorded using a 3D laser Doppler vibrometer.

MEASURING

Guided waves signals were recorded for a large setup of frequencies and artificial defects in a controlled environment.

Got curious? Get your data here:

How to Cite?

You would like to use our data for scientific publication? – You’re totally welcome! Please just cite our papers describing the survey of the data and the website:

Moll, J.; Kathol, J.; Fritzen, C.-P.; Moix-Bonet, M.; Rennoch, M.; Koerdt, M.; Herrmann, A.; Sause, M. and Bach, M., „Open Guided Waves – Online Platform for Ultrasonic Guided Wave Measurements“, Structural Health Monitoring, 2019, vol. 18(5–6), 1903–1914, DOI: 10.1177/1475921718817169

SEE PUBLICATION

Moll, J.; Kexel, C.; Pötzsch, S.; Rennoch, M. and Herrmann, A. S., „Temperature affected guided wave propagation in a composite plate complementing the Open Guided Waves Platform“, Scientific Data, 2019, 6:191,
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-019-0208-1 (paper)
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4488089 (files)

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