Review on Composite Structural Health Monitoring Based on Fiber Bragg Grating Sensing Principle

doi:10.1007/s12204-013-1375-4

Abstract

Abstract: Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) based sensors offer important advantages over traditional instrumentation with regards to real-time structural health monitoring (SHM) of composite materials and structures in recent years. FBG sensors, integrated into existing structures or embedded into new ones, have played a major role in assessing the safety and integrity of engineering structures. In this paper, a review on the latest research of the FBG-based SHM technique for composite field is presented. Firstly, the FBG sensing principle is briefly discussed and FBG and several other optical fiber sensors (OFSs) for SHM are performance-compared. Then, several examples of the use of FBG sensors in composite SHM are illustrated, including those from the field of cure monitoring, civil engineering, aviation, aerospace, marine and offshore platform. Finally, some existing problems are pointed out and some proposals for further researches are provided.

Key words: fiber Bragg grating (FBG)| structural health monitoring (SHM)| composite materials| optical fiber sensor (OFS)

摘要： Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) based sensors offer important advantages over traditional instrumentation with regards to real-time structural health monitoring (SHM) of composite materials and structures in recent years. FBG sensors, integrated into existing structures or embedded into new ones, have played a major role in assessing the safety and integrity of engineering structures. In this paper, a review on the latest research of the FBG-based SHM technique for composite field is presented. Firstly, the FBG sensing principle is briefly discussed and FBG and several other optical fiber sensors (OFSs) for SHM are performance-compared. Then, several examples of the use of FBG sensors in composite SHM are illustrated, including those from the field of cure monitoring, civil engineering, aviation, aerospace, marine and offshore platform. Finally, some existing problems are pointed out and some proposals for further researches are provided.

关键词: fiber Bragg grating (FBG)| structural health monitoring (SHM)| composite materials| optical fiber sensor (OFS)

CLC Number:

TB 33

QIU Ye (邱野), WANG Quan-bao (王全保), ZHAO Hai-tao* (赵海涛), CHEN Ji-an (陈吉安), WANG Yue-ying (王曰英). Review on Composite Structural Health Monitoring Based on Fiber Bragg Grating Sensing Principle[J]. Journal of shanghai Jiaotong University (Science), 2013, 18(2): 129-139.

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