Damage prognosis is a natural extension of damage detection andstructural health monitoring and is forming a growing part of manybusinesses. This comprehensive volume presents a series offundamental topics that define the new area of damageprognosis. Bringing together essential information in each ofthe basic technologies necessary to perform damage prognosis, italso reflects the highly interdisciplinary nature of the industrythrough the extensive referencing of each of the componentdisciplines.

Taken from lectures given at the Pan American Advanced StudiesInstitute in Damage Prognosis sponsored by the US National ScienceFoundation in cooperation with Los Alamos National Laboratories,this book will be essential reading for anyone looking to get togrips with the fundamentals of damage prognosis.

• Presents the ′ground rules′ for Damage Prognosis.
• Deals with interdisciplinary topics: rotating machines,aerospace structures, automotive components and civilstructures.
• Covers essential technical material: equations, graphs andplots, tables and photographs.
• Offers additional material from the associated workshop on anactive web site.