Structural health monitoring of bonded composite joints using embedded chirped fibre bragg gratings

Advanced Composites Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 185-192

  Palaniappan, J ^a   Wang, H ^a   Ogin, S L ^a   AThorne, ^a   Reed, G T ^a   Crocombe, A D ^a   Tjin, S C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; MAINTAINABILITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TRANSPARENCY;

CHIRPED FIBRE BRAGG GRATINGS (CFBGS); DISBOND GROWTH; LOAD REDISTRIBUTION; TRANSPARENT ADHEREND;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745040782     PISSN: 09636935     EISSN: 2633366X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096369350501400601     Document Type: Article

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