Smart composites embedded with Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors are getting
increasingly popular in aircraft structures due to their self‐sensing and monitoring capability …

This article presents a new composite structure for highly sensitive measurement of
mechanical properties, consisting of an S-shaped tapered multimode fiber (STM) and a …

Testing is essential to validate the effort put into building a new system. In engineering fields
such as aerospace, marine, mechanical, and others, these tests are particularly important for …

Optical fiber is a material that can transport light signals, so resulting useful for data
transmission and sensing applications. Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBG) are a specific type of …

Optical fiber-based sensors have rapidly increased their application fields across multiple
engineering sectors. Their physical characteristics, including low weight, electrical passivity …

The safe takeoff and landing of aircraft is a very important part of the aviation safety. But the
tower controller cannot actively obtain the status information of the takeoff and landing …

Nowadays, sensors are massively used for different types of applications, ranging from the
control of production processes to the continuous monitoring of systems of various kinds …

In the last few decades, the use of optical fiber is becoming more widespread for
communication technologies and sensor applications. In this sense, considering the …

The development of smart systems through the use of components capable of autonomously
generating data regarding their own performance is an extremely innovative aspect in the …

In this paper, we describe the data transfer techniques used so far for landing gear and other
critical aircraft systems predictive maintenance applications, as well as the available …