The internal strain of three-dimensional braided composites with co-braided FBG sensors

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 819-826

  Li, Xianghua ^a   Zhao, Chunsheng ^a   Lin, Jun ^b   Yuan, Shenfang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

3 D braided composites; Braiding methods; Constitutive modeling; Internal strain; Optical fiber sensors

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; HYBRID MATERIALS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

3D BRAIDED COMPOSITES; BRAIDING METHODS; CONSTITUTIVE MODELING; INTERNAL STRAIN;

FIBER OPTIC CHEMICAL SENSORS;

EID: 33947610725     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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