Comparing Polymer Optical Fiber (POF), fiber Bragg gratings and traditional strain gauge for aircraft structural health monitoring

Author

Gómez, J. ; Zubia, J. ; Aranguren, G. ; Durana, G. ; Illaro, J.A. ; Sáez, I. ; Kirchhof, M. ; Poisel, H. ; Hartl, E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun., Univ. of the Basque Country, Bilbao

fYear

2008

fDate

Sept. 30 2008-Oct. 2 2008

Firstpage

51

Lastpage

52

Abstract

Recently, the Polymer Optical Fiber Application Center (POF AC) at the University of Applied Sciences, Nuremberg has developed a polymer optical fiber (POF) elongation sensor. This work analyzes if this design could substitute the traditional strain gauges that are commonly used in structural health monitoring (SHM) tests, or the quite recent sensors based on fiber Bragg gratings.

Keywords

aircraft testing; condition monitoring; fibre optic sensors; strain gauges; Nuremberg; aircraft structural health monitoring; fiber Bragg gratings; polymer optical fiber elongation sensor; strain gauge; Aerospace electronics; Aircraft; Capacitive sensors; Monitoring; Optical fiber applications; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fiber testing; Optical fibers; Optical polymers; Phase detection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Technology Conference, 2008 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1919-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1920-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AVFOP.2008.4653171

Filename

4653171