Graduation Internship | Damage localization of a vessel using iFEM and deep learning

About this position

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is a continuous process of damage identification strategies and can be used for condition monitoring of a navy vessel. Knowing the structural condition of a navy vessel is important to maximize the operability of the vessel. For vessels, damage prognostics after an extreme event like a blast is even important but significantly more complex. Recently Inverse FEM combined with AI techniques has emerged as a potential technology to help with this and be able to identify, localize and assess the damage after any extreme military threat. Inverse Finite Element Method (iFEM) is a shape and stress-sensing technique to reconstruct the displacement field using a limited number of sensors. To apply this approach, iFEM combined with an AI model needs to be developed, trained and validated. This work will be done in collaboration with and under the guidance of TNO Naval and Offshore Structure Department. T...