Structural engineers have long imagined the day when materials used in an aircraft, a wind turbine blade or a bridge could sense if they had been strained to the point of damage, reducing their ...
SMARTFIBER concept of SHM system using Fiber Bragg Grating sensors embedded into a composite tidal turbine blade. SOURCE: SMARTFIBER project. Structural health monitoring (SHM) is an emerging ...
Anglo-Italian safety equipment specialist Aero Sekur (H4/B8) has developed a structural health monitoring system for composite airframes and components, which should overcome weaknesses of existing ...