NEURAL NETWORK APPROACH TO LOCATING ACOUSTIC EMISSION SOURCES IN NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION

We expand upon the idea of using AE to monitor crack in a system or structure, give further motivation for the NN approach, and describe some details of the NN implementation, training, and application. Also included are experimental results on a steel I beam. We conclude with a summary of the many open issues remaining in traversing from the concept stage of this paper to a practical large scale test or implementation