Fibre Optic Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring of Aircraft Composite Structures: Recent Advances and Applications

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) have proved to be a potentially excellent technique for real-time in-situ monitoring of these structures due to t...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 15; no. 8; pp. 18666 - 18713
Main Author: Di Sante, Raffaella
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Switzerland MDPI 30.07.2015
MDPI AG
Subjects:
aerospace
aircraft
Brillouin scattering
composite materials
fibre Bragg gratings
fibre optic sensors
lamb waves
Rayleigh scattering
Review
smart structures
structural health monitoring
Rayleigh scattering
fibre optic sensors
smart structures
lamb waves
aircraft
structural health monitoring
Brillouin scattering
aerospace
composite materials
fibre Bragg gratings
ISSN:1424-8220, 1424-8220
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Summary: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) have proved to be a potentially excellent technique for real-time in-situ monitoring of these structures due to their numerous advantages, such as immunity to electromagnetic interference, small size, light weight, durability, and high bandwidth, which allows a great number of sensors to operate in the same system, and the possibility to be integrated within the material. However, more effort is still needed to bring the technology to a fully mature readiness level. In this paper, recent research and applications in structural health monitoring of composite aircraft structures using FOS have been critically reviewed, considering both the multi-point and distributed sensing techniques.
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ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s150818666