Fibre optic sensors for structural health monitoring of aircraft composite structures: Recent advances and applications

R Di Sante - Sensors, 2015 - mdpi.com
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) …

Using global existing fiber networks for environmental sensing

E Ip, F Ravet, H Martins, MF Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We review recent advances in distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) and their applications.
The scattering mechanisms in glass, which are exploited for reflectometry-based DFOS, are …

Recent advancement in optical fiber sensing for aerospace composite structures

S Minakuchi, N Takeda - Photonic Sensors, 2013 - Springer
Optical fiber sensors have attracted considerable attention in health monitoring of aerospace
composite structures. This paper briefly reviews our recent advancement mainly in Brillouin …

Evaluation of barely visible indentation damage (BVID) in CF/EP sandwich composites using guided wave signals

S Mustapha, L Ye, X Dong, MM Alamdari - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2016 - Elsevier
Barely visible indentation damage after quasi-static indentation in sandwich CF/EP
composites was assessed using ultrasonic guided wave signals. Finite element analyses …

Design of microstructured flat optical fiber for multiaxial strain monitoring in composite materials

F Anelli, A Annunziato, A Erario… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An innovative microstructured flat optical fiber is designed to obtain a multiaxial strain sensor
for composite material monitoring. The sensing regions are constituted by the two eyelets …

Impact damage detection in composite chiral sandwich panels using nonlinear vibro-acoustic modulations

A Klepka, WJ Staszewski, D Di Maio… - Smart Materials and …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reports an application of nonlinear acoustics to impact damage detection in a
composite chiral sandwich panel. The panel is built from a chiral honeycomb and two …

Ultrasonic and electromagnetic NDE for structure and material characterization engineering and biomedical applications

SK DATTA - 2013 - pubs.aip.org
This book edited by Tribikram Kundu is an expanded and updated version of Ultrasonic
Nondestructive Evaluation: Engineering and Biological Material Characterization (CRC …

[HTML][HTML] Life cycle monitoring of large-scale CFRP VARTM structure by fiber-optic-based distributed sensing

S Minakuchi, N Takeda, S Takeda, Y Nagao… - Composites Part A …, 2011 - Elsevier
This study demonstrated fiber-optic-based life cycle monitoring of a representative carbon
fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) stiffened panel manufactured by vacuum assisted resin …

Low-velocity impact source localization in a composite sandwich structure using a broadband piezoelectric sensor network

S Sikdar, P Mirgal, S Banerjee - Composite Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
An online structural health monitoring strategy for real-time impact source localisation in
composite sandwich structure (CSS) is presented in this paper. A broadband piezoelectric …

Study of impact damage in PVA-ECC beam under low-velocity impact loading using piezoceramic transducers and PVDF thin-film transducers

B Qi, Q Kong, H Qian, D Patil, I Lim, M Li, D Liu, G Song - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Compared to conventional concrete, polyvinyl alcohol fiber reinforced engineering
cementitious composite (PVA-ECC) offers high-strength, ductility, formability, and excellent …