Structural integrity monitoring of aircraft panels using a distributed Bragg grating sensing technique

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5050, Issue , 2003, Pages 358-366

  Gifford, Dawn K ^a   Childers, Brooks A ^a   Duncan, Roger G ^a   Jackson, Anthony C ^b   Shaw, Surendra ^b   Schwienberg, Bill ^d   Mazza, James ^c  

^a LUNA INNOVATIONS INC   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^c WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Aging aircraft; Bragg gratings; Crack growth; Fiber optic sensing; Optical frequency domain reflectometry

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; CONDITION MONITORING; CRACK PROPAGATION; ETCHING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL SENSORS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL PANELS;

PHOTOETCHING; REFLECTOMETRY;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 0242694053     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.508072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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