This book covers the basic principle and challenges of structural health monitoring system for natural fibre and the hybrid composites structural materials in industrial applications, such as building, automotive, aerospace and wind turbine. Structural health monitoring (SHM) has become crucial in evaluating the performance of structural application in recent trends, especially since it is in line with the high-tech strategy of Industry 4.0. It is a system that is operated in real time or in an online situation. Hence, it also has advantages for damage detection, damage localisation, damage assessment and life prediction compared to the non-destructive test (NDT) which is conducted offline. The book covers the monitoring of the composite materials in terms of structural properties and damage evaluation through modelling and prediction of failure in composite. It includes recent examples and real-world engineering application to illustrate the understanding of the current technology application. The book benefits lecturers, students, researchers, engineers and industrialist who are working in the civil, aerospace and wind turbine industries.
Dr. Mohammad Jawaid is currently working as Senior Research Fellow (Professor) at Biocomposite Technology Laboratory, Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP), Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. He has more than 10 years of experience in teaching, research and industries. His area of research interests includes hybrid reinforced/filled polymer composites and advance materials. So far, he has published 40 books, 70 book chapters, more than 350 peer-reviewed international journal papers and several published review papers under top 25 hot articles in science direct during 2013–2018. He also obtained 2 Patents and 6 Copyrights. H-index and citation in Scopus are 49 and 10638, and in Google scholar, H-index and citation are 58 and 14753. He is founding Springer Series Editor of Composite Science and Technology Book and Series Editor of Springer Proceedings in Materials. He is also International Advisory Board member of Springer Series on Polymerand Composite Materials. His 5 published review paper under hot cited articles in science direct during 2016–2019. He is reviewer of several high impact ISI journals (84 journals).
Dr. Ahmad Hamdan obtained his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2015. Presently, he is working as a Senior Lecturer at Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia. His research focuses mainly on turbine blade aerodynamics, structural health monitoring system, biocomposites fabrication, structure vibration, cutting tool technology and cooling system. He was awarded with Gold Medal for his project, Automatic Thermocyclic Dipping Machine (ATDM) at ITEX 2011. He already published 1 book, 5 book chapters, 14 proceeding papers and more than 12 international journal papers.
Prof. Ir. Ts. Dr. Mohamed Thariq Haji Hameed Sultan is a Professor at Aerospace Department, Universiti Putra Malaysia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield, UK. He has about 10 years of experience in teaching as well as in research. His area of research interests includes hybrid composites, advance materials, structural health monitoring and impact studies. So far, he has published more than 100 international journal papers and received many awards locally and internationally. Currently, he is also attached to the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) as the Deputy Chairman in the Engineering Education Technical Division (E2TD).
