Structural health monitoring of cracked aircraft panels repaired with bonded patches using fiber bragg grating sensors

Applied Composite Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 87-98

  Sekine, Hideki ^a   Fujimoto, Shin Etsu ^a   Okabe, Tomonaga ^a   Takeda, Nobuo ^b   Yokobori Jr , Toshimitsu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cracked aircraft panel; Identification of crack and disbond fronts; Improved tunneling method; Patch repair; Reflection spectrum of FBG sensor; Structural health monitoring

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; CONDITION MONITORING; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; SENSORS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CRACKED AIRCRAFT PANEL; IDENTIFICATION OF CRACK AND DISBOND FRONTS; IMPROVED TUNNELING METHOD; PATCH REPAIR; REFLECTION SPECTRUM OF FBG SENSOR; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

CRACKS;

EID: 33745456501     PISSN: 0929189X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10443-006-9011-1     Document Type: Article

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