The paper provides a state of the art review of guided wave based structural health monitoring (SHM). First, the fundamental concepts of guided wave propagation and its implementation for SHM is explained. Following sections present the different modeling schemes adopted, developments in the area of transducers for generation, and sensing of wave, signal processing and imaging technique, statistical and machine learning schemes for feature extraction. Next, a section is presented on the recent advancements in nonlinear guided wave for SHM. This is followed by section on Rayleigh and SH waves. Next is a section on real-life implementation of guided wave for industrial problems. The paper, though briefly talks about the early development for completeness,is primarily focussed on the recent progress made in the last decade. The paper ends by discussing and highlighting the future directions and open areas of research in guided wave based SHM.

In this paper, a novel wavelet based spectral finite element is developed for studying elastic wave propagation in 1-D connected waveguides. First the partial differential wave equation is converted to simultaneous ordinary differential equations (ODEs) using Daubechies wavelet approximation in time. These ODEs are then solved using finite element (FE) technique by deriving the exact interpolating function in the transformed domain. Spectral element captures the exact mass distribution and thus the system size required is very much smaller then conventional FE. The localized nature of the compactly supported Daubechies wavelet allows easy imposition of initial-boundary values. This circumvents several disadvantages of the conventional spectral element formulation using Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) particularly in the study of transient dynamics. The proposed method is used to study longitudinal and flexural wave propagation in rods, beams and frame structures. Numerical experiments are performed to show the advantages over FFT-based spectral element methods. The efficiency of the spectral formulation for impact force identification is also demonstrated.

In this paper, an experimental study has been carried out to develop a baseline-free damage detection technique using the time reversibility of a Lamb wave. The experiments have been carried out on a metallic plate. Time reversibility is the process in which a response signal recorded at a receiver location is reversed in time and transmitted back through the receiver to the original transmitter location. In the absence of any defect or damage in the path between the transmitter-receiver locations, theoretically the signal received back at the original transmitter location (reconstructed signal) is identical to the original input signal. The initial part of the present work is aimed at understanding the time reversibility of a Lamb wave in an undamaged metallic plate. This involves a thorough study of different parameters such as frequency, pulse frequency band width, transducer size and the effects of tuning these parameters on the quality of a reconstructed input signal. This paper also suggests a method to mitigate the effects of the frequency dependent attenuation of Lamb wave modes (amplitude dispersion) and thus achieve better reconstruction for an undamaged plate. Finally, the time reversal process (TRP) is used to detect damage in an aluminium plate without using any information from the undamaged structure. A block mass, a notch and an area of surface erosion are considered as representative of different types of damage. The results obtained show that the effect of damage on TRP is significant, contrary to the results reported earlier.

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