Aircraft structural-health monitoring using optical fiber distributed BOTDR sensors

Advanced Composite Materials: The Official Journal of the Japan Society of Composite Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-26

  Yari, Takashi ^a   Nagai, Kanehiro ^a   Takeda, Nobuo ^b  

^a MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brillouin optical time domain reflectometer; Distributed sensor; Simultaneous measurement of strain and temperature; Spatial resolution; Structural test

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SENSORS; REFLECTOMETERS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BRILLOUIN OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETERS; DISTRIBUTED SENSORS; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT OF STRAIN AND TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

EID: 33645358820     PISSN: 09243046     EISSN: 15685519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568551041408769     Document Type: Conference Paper

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