In-service structural health monitoring of composite aircraft structures plays a key role in the
assessment of their performance and integrity. In recent years, Fibre Optic Sensors (FOS) …

Nowadays, smart composite materials embed miniaturized sensors for structural health
monitoring (SHM) in order to mitigate the risk of failure due to an overload or to unwanted …

Optical fiber gratings have developed into a mature technology with a wide range of
applications in various areas, including physical sensing for temperature, strain, acoustic …

Embedded optical fibre sensors are considered for structural health monitoring purposes in
numerous applications. In fibre reinforced plastics, embedded fibre Bragg gratings are found …

Accelerated curing of high performance fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites via
microwave heating or radiation, which can significantly reduce cure time and increase …

Graphene and its derivatives have become the most explored materials since Novoselov
and Geim (Nobel Prize winners for Physics in 2010) achieved its isolation in 2004. The …

An ultra-sensitive sensor, based on two Fabry–Perot interferometers (FPIs), has been
realized for temperature and pressure sensing. A polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-based …

In this paper, we report an optical fiber pH sensor based on a polyaniline coating deposited
on the surface of a tilted fiber Bragg grating. The pH-sensitive film was synthesized by in situ …

The use of nanoparticles (NPs) in scientific applications has attracted the attention of many
researchers in the last few years. The use of NPs can help researchers to tune the physical …

An all-fiber sensor capable of simultaneous measurement of temperature and strain is newly
presented. The sensing head is formed by a fiber Bragg grating combined with a section of …