US Patent Issued to University of South Carolina on Nov. 3 for "Acoustic emission method to ascertain damage occurrence in impacted composites" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,320, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to University of South Carolina (Columbia, S.C.).

"Acoustic emission method to ascertain damage occurrence in impacted composites" was invented by Victor Giurgiutiu (Columbia, S.C.), Robin James (Columbia, S.C.) and Roshan Joseph (Columbia, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Employing methodologies and systems to detect damage initiation and growth inside a composite material (matrix cracking, delamination, fiber break, fiber pullout, etc.) wherein damage produces high-frequency acoustic emission (AE) waves that are transported to recording sensors along with relatively lower frequency waves repres...