Barely visible impact damage detection for composite sandwich structures by optical-fiber-based distributed strain measurement

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Minakuchi, S ^a   Okabe, Y ^b   Mizutani, T ^a   Takeda, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE LAYERS; AXIAL STRAIN; BARELY VISIBLE IMPACT DAMAGES; BRILLOUIN; BRILLOUIN GAIN; BRILLOUIN GAIN SPECTRUM; CENTIMETER SPATIAL RESOLUTION; COMPOSITE SANDWICH STRUCTURE; DAMAGED AREA; DETECTION SYSTEM; DETECTION TECHNIQUE; DISTRIBUTED STRAIN MEASUREMENT; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; IMPACT DAMAGES; NON-UNIFORM STRAIN; NONUNIFORM; OPTICAL FIBER NETWORKS; OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR NETWORKS; PRE-PUMP; SAMPLING INTERVAL; SENSING RANGES; SENSING SYSTEMS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; FIBERS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MARINE APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; SAMPLING; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; STRAIN GAGES; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DAMAGE DETECTION;

EID: 70350643630     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/18/8/085018     Document Type: Article

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