• Dermatas, Evangelos
• Kappatos, Vassilis

Abstract

<p>One of the most important, complex and large offshore structures is the ship hull, of which structural members must properly monitoring and rectified in order to avoid the catastrophic failure with many losses of human lives and unanticipated out-of-service time. A typical hull inspection requires dry-docking processes, which is sensitive to human errors, costly and the ship should be out-of-order for many days. In case of transport oil ships, the environmental consequences of a ship accident are incalculable, as huge mass of oil spillage into the sea wasted the ecological system and harmed the Flora and Fauna of the sea and coasts for many years. Recently, Acoustic Emission (AE) method has been used to inspect large offshore structures using a relatively small number of sensors. In this chapter, a short review in structural health monitoring of offshore structures using AE testing is provided.</p>

Topics

• impedance spectroscopy
• acoustic emission