This work evaluates and investigates the wireless generation and detection of Lamb-waves on fiber-reinforced materials using surface applied or embedded piezo elements. The general target is to achieve wireless systems or sensor networks for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), a type of Non-Destructive-Evaluation (NDE). In this sense, a fully wireless measurement system that achieves power transmission implementing inductive coils is reported. This system allows a reduction of total system weight as well as better integration in the structure. A great concern is the characteristics of the material, in which the system is integrated, because the properties can have a direct impact on the strength of the magnetic field. Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced-Polymer (CFRP) is known to behave as an electrical conductor, shielding radio waves with increasing worse effects at higher frequencies. Due to the need of high power and voltage, interest is raised to evaluate the operation of piezo as actuators at the lower frequency ranges. To this end, actuating occurs at the International Scientific and Medical (ISM) band of 125 kHz or low-frequency (LF) range. The feasibility of such system is evaluated extensively in this work. Direct excitation, is done by combining the actuator bonded to the surface or embedded in the material with an inductive LF coil and setting the circuit in resonance. A more controlled possibility, also explored, is the use of electronics to generate a Hanning-windowed-sine to excite the PWAS in a narrow spectrum. In this case, only wireless power is transmitted to the actuator node, and this lastly implements a Piezo-driver to independently excite Lamb-waves. Sensing and data transfer, on the other hand, is done using the high-frequency (HF) 13.56 MHz. The HF range covers the requirements of faster sampling rate and lower energy content. A re-tuning of the antenna coils is performed to obtain better transmission qualities when the system is implemented in CFRP. Several quasi-isotropic (QI) CFRP plates with sensor and actuator nodes were made to measure the quality of transmission and the necessary energy to stimulate the actuator-sensor system. In order to produce baselines, measurements are prepared from a healthy plate under specific temperature and humidity conditions. The signals are evaluated to verify the functionality in the presence of defects. The measurements demonstrate that it is possible to wirelessly generate Lamb-waves while early results show the feasibility to determine the presence of structural failure. For instance, progress has been achieved detecting the presence of a failure in the form of drilled holes introduced to the structure. This work shows a complete set of experimental results of different sensor/-actuator nodes
