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Aircraft Structural Health Monitoring for Damage Detection: Reliability Aspects and Potential Solutions

This work presents general factors affecting the structural health monitoring for damage detection outcomes and discusses candidate solutions of establishing reliability measures similar to nondestructive inspection-based techniques.

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