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        <journal-title>Materials physics and mechanics</journal-title>
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          <trans-title>Механика и физика материалов</trans-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">1605-8119</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">11</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18149/MPM.5422026_11</article-id>
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        <article-title>Topological data analysis and graph signal processing: quantitative defect assessment and localization of structural inhomogeneities in composites from nondestructive testing data</article-title>
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          <trans-title>Topological data analysis and graph signal processing: quantitative defect assessment and localization of structural inhomogeneities in composites from nondestructive testing data</trans-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Borovkov</surname>
            <given-names>A.I.</given-names>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Vafaeva</surname>
            <given-names>Kh.M.</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-1196-8004</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Vatin</surname>
            <given-names>N.I.</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Nuguzhinov</surname>
            <given-names>Zh.S.</given-names>
          </name>
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      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="aff1">Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University</aff>
      <aff id="aff2">Kazakhstan Multidisciplinary Institute of Reconstruction and Development Republican State Enterprise on the Right of Economic Use</aff>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2026-05-01">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>05</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>54</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>140</fpage>
      <lpage>166</lpage>
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        <p>The aim of the study is to develop and perform a preliminary evaluation of a method for diagnosing and locating internal defects in multilayer polymer composite materials using non-destructive testing data. A method combining topological data analysis and graph-signal processing is proposed. To demonstrate the potential feasibility of this method, an analysis of synthetic ultrasonic signals was conducted. A set of 81 ultrasonic signals, representing various locations of internal defects in the composite material, was used. Topological data analysis enabled the identification of informative topological features and distinguished defective from defect-free cases with a silhouette score of 0.471. The results show the potential of using topological data analysis to automate the structural monitoring of internal defects in multilayer polymer composite materials.</p>
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        <kwd>topological data analysis</kwd>
        <kwd>graph signal processing</kwd>
        <kwd>nondestructive testing</kwd>
        <kwd>composite materials</kwd>
        <kwd>structural inhomogeneities</kwd>
        <kwd>defect localization</kwd>
        <kwd>signal interpretation</kwd>
        <kwd>structural health monitoring</kwd>
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