Comparison of shearography and optical fibre Bragg grating strain sensors with resistance foil strain gauge measurements

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5856 PART II, Issue , 2005, Pages 682-690

  Groves, Roger M ^a,c   Chehura, Edmon ^a   Li, Weilai ^b   Staines, Stephen E ^a   James, Stephen W ^a   Tatam, Ralph P ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optical fibre Bragg gratings; Shearography; Strain measurement

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; SENSORS; STRAIN; STRAIN GAGES;

SHEAROGRAPHY; STRAIN MEASUREMENTS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 28844480939     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.611887     Document Type: Conference Paper

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