Piezoelectric, piezoresistive, and optical fiber sensors have attracted considerable attention
in structural health monitoring (SHM) applications for strain/temperature measurements in …

The characteristics of polymer fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) embedded in composite materials
are studied in this paper and are compared with characteristics of their silica counterparts. A …

New optical stereometric methods are becoming commonplace in investigations of
mechanical behaviour of biomaterials. An understanding of the mechanical behaviour of …

In the paper we present the results of our research on optical fiber sensors embedded into
composite material samples. We investigate the influence of the lamination process, axial …

The fiber Bragg grating (FBG) strain sensors were used for on-line monitoring of the stress
variation of the lined wall in the gateway retained along the goaf of No. 3203 coal mining …

Some of the most critical issues of the influence of the thermal expansion of composite
materials on embedded polarimetric sensors for measurements of strain and temperature …

Axial and transversal orientational configurations of a nematic liquid crystal 6CHBT are
realized inside glassy cylindrical capillaries by using photoalignment technique. It is …

A feasibility study of smart composite materials with embedded photonic crystal fiber (PCF)
sensors for measurements of local and average strain and temperature is presented in this …

This paper presents an optoelectronic method for measuring the maximum value of non-
uniformly distributed strain at varying temperature. Use of conjugate a gradient algorithm …

Theoretical analysis of propagation properties in a hollow-core Bragg fiber for bio-sensing
applications has been demonstrated. Based on the Bragg fiber we propose a resonant …