ABSTRACT

CONTENTS 8.1 Introduction ............................................................................................... 193 8.2 Related Work............................................................................................. 194

8.2.1 Within University of Toledo....................................................... 194 8.2.2 Outside AMMC ............................................................................ 194

8.3 Methodology.............................................................................................. 195 8.4 Experimental Results................................................................................ 197

8.4.1 Experimental Procedure .............................................................. 197 8.4.2 Data Analysis ................................................................................ 197

8.4.2.1 Energy Per Unit Time................................................... 198 8.5 Conclusions................................................................................................ 201 8.6 Remaining Work ....................................................................................... 201

Acoustic emission (AE) has been widely used in many fields such as material behavior detecting, nondestructive testing, investigating friction and wear processes, monitoring engineering structures, and mechanical machining processes since the late 1960s.