Abstract
There are many conventional methods which may be used to monitor the health of structures - of which vibration monitoring is effective and can be used for special structures such as aircraft wings. A smart structure system based on fiber optic vibration sensors has been developed to monitor structural damage. A method based on the detection of spatial speckle of a multimode optical fiber is described. A multimode optical fiber with a diameter of 200/230 μm is used in the present experiment. The theoretical analysis and the experimental tests are described. The fiber optic sensors have been embedded in the carbon/epoxy composite specimens and surface mounted on the surface of aluminum specimens. Furthermore, experiments to examine the different types of damage to these specimens have been carried out. The results show that this kind of multimode fiber optic sensor can be used in the non-destructive evaluation of smart materials.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 45-51 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | NDT and E International |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2002 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Fiber optic sensor
- Non-destructive evaluation
- Smart material
- Speckle detection
- Vibration sensor
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