Strain-based health assessment of bonded composite repairs

Composite Structures

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 234-242

  Li, Henry C H ^a   Beck, Felix ^b   Dupouy, Olivier ^c   Herszberg, Israel ^d   Stoddart, Paul R ^e   Davis, Claire E ^f   Mouritz, Adrian P ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c Ecole d'Ingenieurs Louis de Broglie   (France)

^d Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures Limited ^*  (Australia)

^e SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^f DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bonded repair; Differential strain; External doubler; Fibre Bragg grating; Scarf repair; Structural health monitoring

Indexed keywords

BOND STRENGTH (MATERIALS); CONDITION MONITORING; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

COMPOSITE BONDED REPAIRS; DIFFERENTIAL STRAIN; EXTERNAL DOUBLER REPAIR; SCARF REPAIR; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

CARBON FIBER; DEBONDING; FIBER OPTICS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MONITORING SYSTEM; REPAIR; STRAIN;

EID: 33747859317     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2006.06.032     Document Type: Article

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