This chapter introduces the piezoelectric wafer active sensors pwas which are inexpensive low profile transducers that operate on the piezoelectric principle pwas transducers couple the electrical and mechanical effects through the piezoelectric constitutive equations. Structural health monitoring with piezoelectric wafer active sensors predictive modeling and simulation victor giurgiutiu corresponding author university of south carolina department of . Structural health monitoring with piezoelectric wafer active sensors giurgiutiu victor 9780124186910 books amazonca. Structural health monitoring with piezoelectric wafer active sensors academic press san diego and london. Ama style mei h haider mf joseph r migot a giurgiutiu v recent advances in piezoelectric wafer active sensors for structural health monitoring applications