Brillouin spectral response depending on strain non-uniformity within centimeter spatial resolution and its application to internal damage detection in large-scale composite structures

SDHM Structural Durability and Health Monitoring

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 199-219

  Minakuchi, Shu ^a   Mizutani, Tadahito ^a   Tsukamoto, Haruka ^a   Nishio, Mayuko ^a   Okabe, Yoji ^b   Takeda, Nobuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN; BRILLOUIN GAIN SPECTRUM; BRILLOUIN OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; CENTIMETER SPATIAL RESOLUTION; COMPOSITE SANDWICH STRUCTURE; DAMAGED AREA; DISTRIBUTED STRAIN; IMPACT DAMAGE DETECTION; INTERNAL DAMAGES; NON-UNIFORM STRAIN; NONUNIFORMITY; OPTICAL FIBER NETWORKS; PRE-PUMP; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; STRAIN PROFILES;

AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SENSORS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DAMAGE DETECTION;

EID: 70349751743     PISSN: 19302983     EISSN: 19302991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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