Smart structures—The relevance of fiber optics

Culshaw, Brian; Gardiner, Peter T.

doi:10.1080/01468039208204200

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“…Leng and Asundi [4] monitored the curing process of composite materials and detected the damage situation in real time during the fabrication of composite structures using embedded extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer (EFPI) [5][6][7][8] and FBG sensors. It was also confirmed by many studies [9][10][11][12][13] that an OFS embedded in composites does not degrade the integrity of the host composite system. Most of the above studies mainly focused on detecting the damage initiation and on measuring the strain and temperature of the host materials.…”

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Analysis of Longitudinal Strains of Cross-ply Composite Laminates using A-EFPI Optical Fiber Sensor

Woo

Choi

Kwon

et al. 2007

Journal of Composite Materials

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The longitudinal strains (εx) of the core and the skin layers in glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) cross-ply composite laminates are analyzed using embedded optical fiber sensors (OFSs) of absolute extrinsic Fabry—Perot interferometer (A-EFPI). Foil-type strain gages (SGs) bonded on both upper and lower surfaces of a specimen are employed for comparison of the strain measurement on the surface. It has been shown that the values of εx in the interior of the skin layer and the core layer measured by embedded A-EFPI sensor are lower than those of the specimen surface measured by SGs. Experimental results agree well with those from finite element analysis based on a shear lag model. Optical microscopy observation of the damage behavior around the fiber sensor by the thin-sectioning technique shows that reinforcing glass fibers protect the OFS embedded in the 0 ° skin layer, whereas the formation of transverse cracks in the 90 ° core layer substantially reduces strains at the failure of OFS embedded in the core layer.

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