Volume 45, Issue 12 No AccessStructural Health Monitoring with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors for Space ApplicationsAdrian Cuc, Victor Giurgiutiu, Shiv Joshi and Zeb TidwellAdrian Cuc University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29209Search for more papers by this author, Victor Giurgiutiu University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29209Search for more papers by this author, Shiv Joshi NextGen Aeronautics, Inc., Torrance, California 90505Search for more papers by this author and Zeb Tidwell NextGen Aeronautics, Inc., Torrance, California 90505Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:2 May 2012https://doi.org/10.2514/1.26141SectionsRead Now ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookXLinked InRedditEmail About Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee PDF for referencesCited byNon-reflective traveling waves in finite thin beams: A parametric study1 Mar 2025 | Thin-Walled Structures, Vol. 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