Memorizing and detecting an arrested crack in a foam-core sandwich structure using embedded plastic materials and fiber-optic sensors

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Minakuchi, Shu ^a   Yamauchi, Ippei ^a   Takeda, Nobuo ^a   Hirose, Yasuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KAWASAKI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK ARRESTERS; DAMAGE SIGNALS; DETECTION TECHNIQUE; ELASTIC STRAIN; FBG SENSOR; FIBER BRAGG GRATING SENSORS; FOAM CORE; HIGH-SPEED; INTERFACE CRACK; INTERNAL STRAINS; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; METAL WIRES; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; PLASTIC MATERIALS; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; RESIDUAL STRAINS; SPECTRAL SHAPES; STRAIN STATE; VERIFICATION TESTS;

CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; ELECTRIC SENSING DEVICES; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FOAMS; INTERFACE STATES; METALS; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; SENSORS; UNLOADING; WIRE;

CRACK DETECTION;

EID: 84860744589     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/21/5/055025     Document Type: Article

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