A new multidisciplinary approach towards airplane health monitoring using cantilever airflow sensors

This paper presents an on-line health monitoring technique for aerospace applications. We propose a new interdisciplinary approach towards the development of a reliable, non-invasive and accurate sensor for the detection of nano scale cracks on the body of airplane. Herein, the capacitive cantilever sensor is introduced to detect the weak airflow in proximity of nano-damage in aircraft. We also examine the model of nanoscale damage using COMSOL 5.0 software, which is recognized as reliable software in FSI simulations. Based on these results and discussions, the proposed approach takes us one step closer toward the development of novel health monitoring technology.