Distributed sensing technique for test article damage detection and monitoring

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5050, Issue , 2003, Pages 367-375

  Duncan, Roger G ^a   Childers, Brooks A ^a   Gifford, Dawn K ^a   Pettit, Don E ^b   Hickson, Andrew W ^b   Brown, Timothy L ^c  

^a LUNA INNOVATIONS INC   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging aircraft; Aircraft health monitoring; Bragg gratings; Distributed sensing; Fiber optic sensing; Non destructive evaluation; Optical frequency domain reflectometry

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; AIRCRAFT PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; CONDITION MONITORING; DEMODULATION; FATIGUE TESTING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MULTIPLEXING; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; OPTICAL SENSORS; STRAIN GAGES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

HEALTH MONITORING; PHOTOETCHING; REFLECTOMETRY;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 0242525252     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.512546     Document Type: Conference Paper

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